[okular] [Bug 406237] PDFs get an added margin when printing

[Matthew Trescott]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406237

Matthew Trescott <matthewtrescott at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|DUPLICATE                   |---
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED

--- Comment #5 from Matthew Trescott <matthewtrescott at gmail.com> ---
Okay, this is NOT a duplicate. Please read it carefully and test it for
yourself. The default settings still produce poor results, although it as now
at least possible to get suitable output.

The main problem seems to be that Okular defaults to A4 paper regardless of the
paper size of the input document.

- On physical printers, Okular seems to ignore the paper size setting in the
Printer Properties dialog.
- When using Print to PDF, Okular defaults to A4 even when the input document
size is Letter. Changing the paper size in Printer Properties actually takes
effect, however.

However, even when the paper size for Print to PDF is corrected (set to Letter
in my case), enabling "Force rasterization" produces incorrect results when the
following scaling settings are used:

- "Fit to printable area" results in the entire document being scaled down,
although the margins are already more than sufficient for printing.
- "Print original size" shifts the entire document down and to the right.

To summarize, the only settings that produce normal print output for a standard
8.5 x 11" document are either:

- Print to PDF with the paper size manually set to Letter instead of A4 _AND_
"Force rasterization" disabled.
- Print to PDF with the paper size manually set to Letter instead of A4 _AND_
"Force rasterization" enabled _AND_ scaling set to "Fit to full page"

I don't mean to be the unhappy customer when I didn't pay for the software, but
in the future it would be nice to have bug reports verified fixed before
they're closed as duplicates. It would make reporting bugs so much easier if I
didn't have to put this much effort into proving to developers that the bug
exists. Thanks.

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