[okular] [Bug 408270] Okular always prints in A4 on physical printers, even when Letter is the default

Michael Weghorn bugzilla_noreply at kde.org
Sat Jul 6 21:04:21 BST 2019


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408270

--- Comment #17 from Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn at posteo.de> ---
(In reply to Matthew Trescott from comment #16)
> Created attachment 121353 [details]
> CUPS error log when printing with LibreOffice
> 
> No, neither of those files exist. And as I said, LibreOffice doesn't have
> this problem. Here's the CUPS error log when printing with LibreOffice (I
> included a bit more at the beginning this time)

Indeed, this log has "PageSize=Letter" as expected.

> 
> I noticed that LibreOffice sends CUPS a PDF, while Okular sends CUPS a
> PostScript file. Maybe something goes wrong in the PDF -> PostScript
> conversion in Okular/Poppler?

I think the problem is earlier already, since the wrong value of the option is
used, so I'd expect that Poppler is passed A4 already and thus generates A4 (as
it's told).

What happens with other Qt/KDE applications, like e.g. Kate?

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