Bug 59025

Summary:	Okular should display feedback about the status of the current print job
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adrian, b7.10110111, kishore96, luigi.toscano, luis, m.weghorn, nate, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	0.15.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Ferdinand Gassauer 2003-05-27 08:26:19 UTC

Version:           0.13.2 (using KDE 3.1.2)
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.2.19

Hi!
while printing many pages no feedback is given, kghostview looks dead.
IMHO it would be a good feedback to show the progress i.e. current page number which is printed.
(something like acroread)
cu
ferdinand

Comment 1 Adrián Chaves (Gallaecio) 2012-10-14 19:17:00 UTC

I think this wish is not implemented in Okular.

I do not have a printer, so instead I printed an Okular document as a PDF (print, no export). And I do noticed that Okular freezes while the file is being generated: you can not use Okular (e.g. you can not scroll the current document), and you get no feedback of the impression progress.

Can anyone else confirm this feature request is valid for Okular?

Comment 2 Ruslan Kabatsayev 2013-06-05 20:28:12 UTC

I confirm this is valid. This becomes especially important when printing large documents. If you close Okular when you see printer has started, you'll get half-done print job because Okular closes without completing preparing print and you don't know this.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2017-08-11 23:26:04 UTC

*** Bug 383386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Luigi Toscano 2017-11-28 20:44:54 UTC

I don't think that the change of title reflects the bug. Okular provides print preview; this bug is about print *feedback*.