Bug 186732

Summary:	easy pamphlet printing for KDE 4
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab>
Component:	print-dialog	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	arne_bab, jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Arne Babenhauserheide 2009-03-10 09:15:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I miss the option to easily print pamphlets in KDE4 (it was one of the top features of KDE 3 printing for me). 

I saw in the page ordering bug that we should bug Qt for that, so I did that, too, and wrote the bug here, since I didn't get to see a bug ID at Qt, so I'm unable to reference it (no login). 

In KDE 3.5 this was done via customizeable external filters which often used ps2ps. 

For KDE4 with PDF you could for example use pdftk, pyPDF or similar: 
- http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
- http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/

Comment 1 Arne Babenhauserheide 2009-03-12 13:37:19 UTC

here's a reply to the bug i created for Qt: 

Am Donnerstag 12 März 2009 11:44:24 schrieb qt-bugs@trolltech.com:
> This isn't a bug in Qt so much as it is a feature request for Okular, or
> a KDE print dialog.  We give the ability to extend the print dialog in
> 4.5.0, and thus this feature request should be taken up with KDE and
> not Qt.

Comment 2 Arne Babenhauserheide 2010-01-13 08:56:20 UTC

Here's a little script to turn any PDF whoose pages are a multiple of four into a pamphlet: 

http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/1w6/src/tip/sonstiges/Skripte/write_booklet_pdfjam.py

Maybe it can help...

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:18:55 UTC

Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann