Version: 2.5.6 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux Having configured the printer via System->Printing for LAN CUPS LJ4050; Paper=Letter, plain, tray2, flip on long edge; Advanced=Duplex (checked). Tested settings with various apps like OOo & Adobe PDF Reader7 - their File->Print options menu correctly reflects the system's predefined settings (or their properties can be adjusted to suit without complaint) and properly prints in duplex mode. When using Kate 2.5.6, KWrite 4.5.6, Kedit 1.3/KDE3.5.6, their File->Print always defaults to Page Size=A4, Paper Type=none, Duplex=none. When manually adjusting for Letter, Plain, Duplex=long, portrait, I consistently get an error message "Some options selected are in conflict. You must resolve these conflicts before continuing. See Driver Settings tab for detailed information." Checking the driver tab settings, it claims that the duplex unit isn't installed. The editor application Gedit does work properly.
I suspect this is an issue in kdelibs, but I'm not entirely sure. Since I can't easily reproduce in my setup, could you try the same with konqueror (any HTML page), and perhaps kmail? This way we could rule out it is related to kate/katepart directly, and assign to the correct people.
Kate is using the standard KDE printing system.
Hi Thomas, Thanks much for your comments - this was helpful in tracking the problem. The scoop is that Kubuntu desktop was installed overtop of Ubuntu Feisty. Using the K-Menu, I selected System->Printing to install and configure the LJ4050. From your comments, it now appears that this K-Menu item only affects the Gnome apps which appeared to work OK. So, I tried K-Menu->System Settings->Printers. The LJ4050 was on the list of available printers in the Printers-System Settings window. OK - herein lies the point of confusion. In the Printers-System Settings window, by left-clicking Laserjet-4050 from the available printer list, the lower half of the window shows the tabs "Information, Jobs, Properties, Instances". When selecting "Properties" tab, one can't see any of the printer's default settings, such as paper type, tray, duplex, & so on. I assumed (falsely) that these were picked up from the settings I had configured from K-Menu->System->Printing. Now that I've poked around on this further, by right-clicking the desired printer from the available list in the Printers-System Settings window, this allows access to the config details I needed. Once these were changed here, the other KDE apps appear to pick-up these settings. Is there a reason why these config details can't be viewed/altered from the "Properties" tab in the lower half of the Printers-System Settings window? Also, as it appears the K printing system is collecting some of the definitions from a Gnome configured printer, why can't KDE pick up all Gnome default printer settings as well? Having poorly defined/labelled menu items and multiple GUI paths of configuration is quite confusing & misleading. Cheers! **************************************************************************** At 07:53 2007/12/11, you wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
KDEPrint is obsolete, unmaintained and will never be revived. Closing all open bugs.