Bug 91626

Summary:	kghostview doesn't print several pages per sheet
Product:	[Unmaintained] kghostview	Reporter:	Sebastian Krämer <mail>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Luís Pedro Coelho <luis>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Cups error log

Description Sebastian Krämer 2004-10-18 23:23:44 UTC

Version: 0.20 (using KDE 3.3.1, Gentoo)
Compiler: gcc version 3.4.1 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.1, ssp-3.4-2, pie-8.7.6.3)
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.7

Today I tried to print a pdf document containing some presentation sheets. For some reason, I wanted to print several pages per sheet. I tried 2 und 4 pages per sheet, using
a) kghostview's properties dialog for printing and
b) an instance of an installed printer which is configured to use kde's ability to print 2/4 pages per sheet.

The result was that the printing job was started somehow (high cpu) but as a result, 'nothing' was done, at least no paper came out of the printer (also, no lights were blinking).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open the file that I'll create as an attachment.
(1b I selected all but the first page; don't know if that matters..)
2. Try to print 2 or 4 pages on one sheet, using the methods I mentioned above.
3. Agree that it's a kghostview error and has nothing to do with my installation ;)

Please tell if it works for you! Also, I'd like to know if it's normal that the preview doesn't show numbered-up pages but the 'normal' document, one page per sheet.

I'm using a HP laserjet 4L which I am connected to via cups.

I also want to mention that these methods worked when I used kprinter as a printing frontend. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to choose printing of not all of the pages..

I won't provide a backtrace as there were no crash. At some point, processing the file seemed to stop/be interrupted.

Please ask questions if you like, I'd really like this thing to be cleared up :)

Thanks.

Comment 1 Sebastian Krämer 2004-10-18 23:31:22 UTC

Sorry, I can't post the presentation as attachment. Even bzip2-compressed, it's more than 1000K :(
Please try another document of your's which isn't too small.
My presentation contained 54 pages and is about 1.3 MB.

Comment 2 Gerald Weber 2004-12-15 11:17:34 UTC

Same problem with
KDE Version:0.20 (KDE 3.3.0, SuSE)
Application: Postscript; PDF Viewer;
Operating System: Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24.5-default
Compiler:gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)
SuSE: 9.2

Any PDF document printing 2 or 4 pages per sheet does not work (kprinter+CUPS). However multiple pages per sheet works when printing PS.

Comment 3 Dik Takken 2005-01-30 13:13:34 UTC

Same problem here on KDE 3.2.2, Gentoo. I will attach the CUPS log containing the debug messages below.

Comment 4 Dik Takken 2005-01-30 13:14:16 UTC

Created attachment 9355 [details]
Cups error log

Comment 5 Sebastian Reitenbach 2005-02-28 15:07:56 UTC

I think i have a similar bug. I'm using Linux KDE 3.3.2 with kghostview 0.20 SuSE RPM's on a SuSE 9.1 System.

printing more than one page per sheet does not work. if i have a 6 pages pdf file and want to print 2 pages per sheet i get 6 empty pages out of the printer. the print preview in kprinter shows only one page per sheet, not two as is should be, this may be the reason because i get 6 rather than 3 empty pages.

using kprinter <filename>.pdf and then selecting 2 pages per sheet works well.

Comment 6 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-15 17:44:47 UTC

(This report should have been assigned to KDEPrint, not kghostview...) 
 
 
 It is not a bug, it is the way the system works. 
 
 To achieve an output exactly as you describe, you have to make KDEPrint use its external pre-filters. 
 
 For some ideas about this, see this link: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2630 
 
 This is a duplicate of the following bugs: 
    Bug 82123   : Printing odd/even pages with multiple pages per sheet gets silly results (DUPLICATE) 
    Bug 107936  : [KDE4] multiple pages on one sheet not in right order NEW 
    Bug 92962   : Option for number-up-layout=???? (page ordering on multiple pages) missing in kprinter (DUPLICATE) 
    Bug 97669   : multipage reverse printouts in wrong order (DUPLICATE) 
    Bug 103666  : [KDE4] facilitate margin adjustment for double-sided printing (DUPLICATE) 
    Bug 108484  : printing multiple pages per sheet with reverse option selected (DUPLICATE) 
 
 
 Please continue discussion at bug 107936 and transfer your bug votes if you care. 
 
 Should you still have similar problems, don't miss to read the hints given in the comment section at bug 107936 and at bug 82123 before you open a new bug. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107936 ***