[Okular-devel] Printable area/Shrink to fit/Margin cut off issues, need help choosing an issue for freedom sponsors bounty

[Bernard Gray]

Hi All,
First up, thanks for the great product you guys have developed.
I work for De Bortoli Wines, an Australian winemaking company and we
are in the process of rolling out KDE (4.9.5 on Ubuntu 12.10) to
replace Gnome 2 on approximately 170 desktops.
I'm encountering an issue with Okular which I need fixed,
unfortunately it exists in the bugtracker under several different
guises:

* Bug 319476 [1] - feature request: fit to printable area
* Bug 276042 [2] - Okular not zoom to max page dimension when printing
* Bug 196590 [3] - [PDF 4.3beta2 regression] bad margins, printing
cuts off parts of the document

As a company, we've had a previous success[4] with the
freedomsponsors.org bounty model, and I'm hoping to try it out again
but due to the number of similar issues currently open in the
bugtracker, I'm having difficulty determining which (if any) most
accurately represents the issue I'm experiencing and which is most
likely to yield a successful result. I'm hoping you guys, as the team
that is likely to do the work, will be able to help me out -

My Issue (in detail):
When I print pdf documents from Okular with content that reaches the
edge of the paper, the edges are being cut off due to the printer not
being able to do edge to edge printing. The page should be shrunk to
fit within the printable area reported by the printer.
I have created some test documents doing both height and width
"oversizing". I've then used Okular, Evince and Adobe Acrobat Reader
to open and send them to printers (HP Colour Laserjet 3700 and Xerox
DocuCentre IV C3370 - ie low and high end printers, completely
different drivers).
In all cases, printing from okular cuts off any edges that extend
beyond the printer's "printable area".
In all cases, printing from evince and acroread shrink the document to
fit the printer's "printable area" and provide the results I'm
expecting.
I've scanned my results as supporting evidence, you can find that here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9alWVS6_yz4RFRpR1RWRTFzMms/edit?usp=sharing

I've also uploaded the sample reference files[5] (created in, and
exported to pdf from inkscape)

I am running an up-to-date Ubuntu 12.10 with Okular reported as
v0.15.5, and libpoppler28 v0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2
I have also tested (okular only) on the latest Ubuntu 13.10 release
with Okular v0.17.2 and libpoppler43 v0.24.1-0ubuntu1, with the same
incorrect results.

My Offer:
The bounty I'm offering is AUD$300 (USD$289.44 currently). It's not
peanuts, hence the need to make sure it winds up attached to the
correct bug, hence my post here :)

Thanks for your time -

Bernard Gray

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[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319476
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276042
[3] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196590
[4] http://freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/316/allow-filesave-with-password-for-xlsx-and-other-not-libreoffice-xml-based-formats
[5] https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9alWVS6_yz4cHYxdkdIcUREWWM/edit?usp=sharing
    https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9alWVS6_yz4Z1dQemx1ZXIxRFk/edit?usp=sharing