Bug 194574

Summary:	Kmail "Print" function always executes "Print all" instead of printing individual pages when "Options >>", "Print pages from '1' to '1' '' is selected.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Neal Makens <bossfrog>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bossfrog, jlayt, nsoranzo, rory_curtis
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.11.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Neal Makens 2009-05-29 18:15:22 UTC

Version:           1.11.3 (using 4.2.3 (KDE 4.2.3), 4.2.3-2.fc10 Fedora)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686

How to reproduce:
1. Select an email to print in Kmail that has at least 2 pages.
2. Select "Print".
3. Select "Options >>".
4. Under "Print options", select "Print from".
5. Select the page number that one wishes to print, e.g., '1' to '1', or '2' to '2'.
6. All of the pages will print, even though only an individual page has been selected.

Expected behavior:
When "Print from" is selected, only the indicated page or pages should print.

Comment 1 Rory Curtis 2009-07-12 13:18:23 UTC

I can confirm this bug in KMail 1.11.2. 

Okular gets this right, i.e. it will only print the requested pages. So a potential workaround is to print the entire message from KMail and then print the pages you want from Okular. It's pretty annoying though.

Comment 2 John Layt 2009-07-29 00:26:24 UTC

This will be because KMail/Konqi/Kate are not page-aware applications, i.e. they don't know where the page breaks are until they paint the pages.  While there are probably ways to work around this, none have done so.  As a short term measure they should disable the Page Range selection in the dialog so as not to confuse users (I've put this on my to-do list, unless someone beats me to it).

Comment 3 John Layt 2009-08-13 23:51:29 UTC

Hmmm, not sure what's up with the SVN->BKO link, but commits 1011062 for trunk and 1011065 for 4.2 disable the From/To print range in the print dialog for KHTML and consequently for KMail so users will no longer be confused by this.  This is the best we can do for now I'm afraid.

I am working on patches to Qt to enable range printing via CUPS, but that will not be available until Qt4.6 (fingers crossed).

I'm not sure khtml would ever be able to be modified to directly support page selection, but that would be a separate wish request.