Bug 242874

Created attachment 48354 [details]
Result of 1st attempt

Version:           0.5.81
OS:                Linux



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I tried to print this document
http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~hiptmair/tmp/NPDE10_1.pdf
with following very extremely complicated options:
* 2-sided print
* 4 pages per side

I know I demand very much from okular. I mean, for example acrobat reader wasn't able to do that either about 10 years ago.

Nevertheless, here is what I tried:
1. Press Ctrl-P, select pages 147 to 154, select long side for 2-sided print and 4 pages per side. Print.
Result: Uh yeah, with lots of imagination you could recognize the printed sheets as slightly familiar to the original document. See attachment.
2. Press Ctrl-P. Select long side again because the dialog does not even try to remember any previously selected option. Select 4 pages per side again as well. Select Pages 147 to 154 again. Go to Printer preferences and select Portrait instead of Landscape because, as the original document is landscape, selecting what would make sense does not work, as seen previously.
Result: Orientation ... wow. It got it right. Just the order is upside down:

 ______
|3    1|
|4    2|
 ——————
So, on the tab where I selected 4 pages per side, there was the option «Left to right, top to bottom». Obviously left to right had to be changed. So:
3. Select Long Edge again. Select Portrait again. Select 4 pages per side again. Select Pages 147 to 154 again. Select «Right to Left, Top to Bottom».
Result?

 _____
|4   2|
|3   1|
 —————

Wtf?
At least this makes sense, because it, as usually, did the opposite I intended.
So:
4. Select pages 147 to 154 again. Select portrait again. Select Long Edge again. Select 4 pages per side again. Select «From Left to Right, Bottom to Top». (At least this was it, as far as I remember.)
Result?
Weird. 

 _____
|1   3|
|2   4|
 —————

This is how I wanted it to be. So there must be a bug somewhere. Please put the pages in random order on the printed page.

Thank you very much in advance.



OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.34-0.slh.9-sidux-amd64
Compiler: cc