Bug 212244

Summary: Allow multiple page ranges in printing dialog
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Tilman Klaeger <kde>
Component: print-dialogAssignee: Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: kaabud-kde, kde, nick, tassilo
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tilman Klaeger 2009-10-28 23:20:38 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Archlinux Packages

At the moment you can only select one page range in the KDE printing dialog. For example you can print from page 10 to 15. I would like to see the option, to print multiple ranges. So I´m able print from, say, page 10 to 15, 20 to 22 and 28 for example. With most programs this is possible, sadly KDE seems to have lost this feature. Especially when "printing" PDF files this would become very handy!
Comment 1 Tassilo Horn 2010-03-29 09:17:47 UTC 
In KDE 3, there was a textfield for page ranges, where I could do exactly that: "10-15,20-22,28".  This textfield had a nice tooltip explaining what you had to insert there.

With KDE 4, this isn't available anymore.  Here, you need to create one print job for each page range, and because the printer dialog doesn't have user definable default values (printer, duplex, ...), printing has become a tedious task for me.

KDE 3:

  1. Print... (using my defaults)
  2. Range: "44-63,75-81,90-100"
  3. Print

KDE 4:

  for r in "44-63" "75-81" "90-100"; do
    1. Print...
    2. Select my printer
    3. Options > enable duplex printing
    4. Set page range r
    5. Print
  done
Comment 2 Tobias Koenig 2010-03-29 09:42:05 UTC 
Hej,  this functionality will come back soon in Qt, see   http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/swimming_upstream  Ciao, Tobias
Comment 3 Tassilo Horn 2010-03-29 09:53:32 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hej,  this functionality will come back soon in Qt, see  
> http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/swimming_upstream  Ciao, Tobias

Thanks for the pointer.  I was just going to add that link to this report, because someone on the KDE mailing list gave me that hint, too. ;-)
Comment 4 Roman Fietze 2010-07-23 09:20:21 UTC 
*** Bug 245512 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-08-31 04:27:43 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2013-01-19 21:45:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186458 ***