[okular] [Bug 407998] Okular scales down pages when printing

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407998

--- Comment #10 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Sergio from comment #9)
> I have finally managed installing a recent version of okular (1.7.2). The
> operation of the scaling menu is a bit unclear to me, though.
> 
> 1. It is presented as a PDF option, but okular supports many more formats.
> For instance, the option is absent for tiff, which is a nice multipage
> format for things like BW document scans with Group4 compression (even if
> those can certainly be embedded in PDF). Similarly, the option is absent for
> PNG, etc.
It's being implemented for other file formats too. I can't find the patch right
now but I know it's in progress!

> 2. The option is grayed out unless I also activate "force rasterization"
> that makes each page take ages for printing.
Already fixed in the next major Okular version with
https://phabricator.kde.org/D18179

> 3. The option seems to be unusable together with the print preview (e.g., it
> is impossible to use the option and preview the results /before/ printing).
That seems like a legit issue. Ideally the print preview would actually be
integrated into the Print dialog itself. Since the dialog comes from Qt, it
would need to be fixed there. Here's the Qt bug tracking that:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-57982

Looks like there is at least some movement on it. Once that's implemented, I
would hope we can delete the Okular-specific Print Preview feature entirely! In
the meantime it seems reasonable to request that the scaling feature be added
to it. an you file a new bug to track just that?

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