Bug 311107

Summary:	Crippled printing: KMail doesn't honor the duplex setting in the print dialog
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	csbugs <bugs>
Component:	commands and actions	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.9.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description csbugs 2012-12-03 19:31:04 UTC

If I try to print out an email, the duplex setting of the printing dialog is disregarded.

Due to this bug, one has to print to PDF first, then open the PDF with Okular and then print. This is no option in a professional office environment.

Since the last few options to use KDE3 in a reasonable way are fading now, I will have to migrate my small enterprise (~15 people) to KDE 4 soon. They will not be amused to have to cope with this crippled functionality.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to print an email longer than 1 page with duplex enabled in the printing dialog
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Actual Results:  
Two sheets of paper used where one had sufficed.

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2012-12-04 06:46:46 UTC

It's not a bug in kmail. It's in QPrinter.
is it work in other apps ? as konqueror for example ?

Comment 2 csbugs 2012-12-04 09:33:16 UTC

Printing from Okular works as expected, of course. If there are no split lines in the PDF, of course. Also printing plain text from KWrite never shows this behaviour.

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2012-12-04 09:49:44 UTC

I added more page options in printer dialog for 4.10
but fix all theses bugs will do in 4.11 we are in feature freeze now

Comment 4 csbugs 2012-12-04 10:04:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Printing from Okular works as expected, of course. If there are no split
> lines in the PDF, of course. Also printing plain text from KWrite never
> shows this behaviour.

I have to correct myself. This comment belongs to another bug. Sorry. Duplex printing works in Okular, but apparently not in KWrite.

Comment 5 Laurent Montel 2012-12-04 10:15:38 UTC

Will add "improve printring" in my 4.11 TODO list.

Comment 6 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:02:46 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 7 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 21:26:43 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.