Bug 374406

Summary:	Cannot set print margins to zero - renders Okular useless for printing labels
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	editor
Component:	printing	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	editor, ludwig.schweitzer, nate, richard.llom, simonandric5, suse
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Typical screen grab (shows "down arrows" greyed-out

Description editor 2016-12-31 23:14:00 UTC

Cannot set margins to zero any more. It used to work fine. But I upgraded to Neon 5.8.5 and suddenly found that the smallest margin was now 4.23mm. 

Most (pretty much all) PDF's have margins already set. So to print at the size originally intended it MUST be possible to set print margins to zero. But now the margins are a minimum of 4.23mm greater than they need to be, when one attempts to print.

Of course, this latest bug renders Okular completely useless when to comes to printing labels.

Comment 1 editor 2016-12-31 23:18:04 UTC

Created attachment 103120 [details]
Typical screen grab (shows "down arrows" greyed-out

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2017-01-01 01:12:41 UTC

The printing dialog is QPrintDialog from Qt libraries. Please report this issue directly to Qt developers via https://bugreports.qt.io/

Comment 3 editor 2017-01-01 01:49:57 UTC

Seems a bug was reported ages ago regarding missing functions on QT print dialog. However, setting a page to print full page is possible already, apparently...


"This is already possible using the QPrinter::setFullPage(bool) function."

Comment 4 Richard Llom 2017-01-03 18:54:50 UTC

(In reply to editor from comment #3)
> Seems a bug was reported ages ago regarding missing functions on QT print
> dialog. However, setting a page to print full page is possible already,
> apparently...
> 
> 
> "This is already possible using the QPrinter::setFullPage(bool) function."

Would you mind sharing the link to the qt bugreport?

Comment 5 suse 2017-06-01 19:59:30 UTC

> > "This is already possible using the QPrinter::setFullPage(bool) function."
> 
> Would you mind sharing the link to the qt bugreport?

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-3546

And here is the documentation of that flag:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qprinter.html#setFullPage

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2017-09-13 03:20:28 UTC

This isn't an issue with Okular or the Qt print dialog; the allowable minimum margins are determined further down the printing stack, by CUPS or LPR another part of the printing system. My printer + CUPS +LPR combination allows 0" margins on all sides, for example. You might try reporting against CUPS or LPR.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-01-03 14:16:20 UTC

*** Bug 388485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***