SUMMARY Okular prints every time in A4 paper size despite Letter size is selected and/or the pdf is actually Letter size STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a Letter size pdf file 2. select "Print" 3. open "Printer Properties" 4. Select the paper size "Letter" 5. print OBSERVED RESULT printer don't print and request to put a A4 size paper in the tray EXPECTED RESULT Start printing on Letter size sheets that are in the tray SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon Flathub version 21.08.0 KDE Frameworks 5.83.0 Qt 5.15.3 (construit sur 5.15.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION All my other apps are (pdf readers, picture viewers, etc...) do print properly with this printer on letter size. I tried the snap version: same issue
I just changed my distro for Manjaro KDE 21.1.4 With it I've got Okular version 21.08.1 standard (not flatpak or snap...)> Exact same printing problem. Also printing with other applications works fine.
I have the exact same problem... but it isn't just okular -- it appears to affect all KDE apps, even though I have confirmed that all settings point to American English, en_US.UTF-8 etc. I've tried toggling them to British and back... KDE apps always print a4, and it jams up the printer for everyone. This has been a problem for years, and has followed me from distro to distro.
I have same issue as well. It impacts things that use the native KDE print menu. Every last part of my system is set to US Letter (locale, system settings, printer config, CUPS), but every print or PDF export comes out in A4. I really noticed it when trying to print vendor checks from the flatpak of GNUCash. It was almost enough for me to leave Plasma for GNOME. Libreoffice, Firefox, and Chrome seem fine, but that is likely due to those apps using their own print subsystem. ***System Details*** Operating System: Fedora Kinoite Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.11.7-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics
For me the problem got resolved at some point with an update. it was before Plasma 6 got released. Never happened again. Currently I'm running Plasma 6.2 and Okular 24.08.03 on Fedora 41, EndeavorOS and Manjaro
(In reply to damien.teyssier from comment #4) > For me the problem got resolved at some point with an update. it was before > Plasma 6 got released. > Never happened again. Currently I'm running Plasma 6.2 and Okular 24.08.03 > on Fedora 41, EndeavorOS and Manjaro Regretfully, this has not been fixed across our 7+ Fedora Kinoite machines. We are running Plasma 6.3.0 with QT 6.8.2 and all applications that use the native QT/KDE print dialog box print on A4. Every setting and locale is set to US Letter, but still A4 persists.
(In reply to cberlinger from comment #5) > Regretfully, this has not been fixed across our 7+ Fedora Kinoite machines. > We are running Plasma 6.3.0 with QT 6.8.2 and all applications that use the > native QT/KDE print dialog box print on A4. Every setting and locale is set > to US Letter, but still A4 persists. In a previous comment you mentioned "It impacts things that use the native KDE print menu.", so does it mean that other Qt applications show the same issue? If that's the case, it's mostly not an Okular issue but a Qt issue (there is no KDE print system, it's all on Qt).
(In reply to Luigi Toscano from comment #6) > > In a previous comment you mentioned "It impacts things that use the native > KDE print menu.", so does it mean that other Qt applications show the same > issue? > If that's the case, it's mostly not an Okular issue but a Qt issue (there is > no KDE print system, it's all on Qt). Yes, I believe that would be fair to say. As an example on Kinoite, kwrite is a native RPM program, Okular is a KDE/QT app via flatpak, and GNUCash is a GTK-based flatpak which uses the native system print portal. All three applications have the same print dialog box, all three have the A4 issue. So yes, it is correct to say this bug is farther reaching than just Okular. It affects Okular and is manifested in it, but the problem is likely higher upstream. Here is more of an "upstream" bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479333 . However it is possible that the KDE devs will have to raise the issue with QT.