Bug 309685

Summary:	Printing from okular broken with duplex, multiple copies and collating
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Sergio <sergio.callegari>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, lambda165
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Sergio 2012-11-07 10:24:45 UTC

The bug is in kde 4.9.3, with okular 1.15.3 (currently not specificable from version dropdown list)

Say that you have a 3 page PDF (i.e. page 1, page 2 and page 3), and that you ask okular to print it in 3 copies, using duplexing and collating.

You expect

Sheet 1, front is page 1 back is page 2
Sheet 2, front is page 3 back is empty
Sheet 3, front is page 1 back is page 2
Sheet 4, front  is page 3 back is empty
Sheet 5, front is page 1 back is page 2
Sheet 6, front  is page 3 back is empty

Unfortunately, you get

Sheet 1, front is page 1 back is page 2
Sheet 2, front is page 3 back is page 1
Sheet 3, front is page 2 back is page 3
Sheet 4, front is page 1 back is page 2
Sheet 5, front is page 3 back is empty

Which is quite useless


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See description

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2012-11-07 18:39:46 UTC

Can you reproduce that behaviour in other KDE/Qt based programs like calligrawords?

Comment 2 lambda165 2013-01-22 20:45:34 UTC

KDE 4.9 printing has broken duplex.  It occurs in all apps I have tried (kate, kwrite, libre office, okular).  See bug 311656, or bug 198795, or one of the many bugs that KDE likes to "resolve" by marking as a duplicates.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-05-08 09:38:38 UTC

No answer for years.

Comment 4 Sergio 2014-05-08 14:39:43 UTC

Completely forgot about it. It is fixed in recent KDE, though.