[Bug 200892] New: automatic paper tray selection when printing

[Jeremy Johnson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200892

           Summary: automatic  paper tray selection when printing
           Product: kde
           Version: 4.2.4
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: jazz_johnson at verizon.net


Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Compiler:          gcc version 4.2.4 (Gentoo 4.2.4-r1 p1.1) 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

I was wondering whether it is feasible for kprinter (or whatever kde:4 kprinter
is now called) to automatically set the paper tray to match the pagesize of the
individual pages in a print job. For instance, suppose I produce a
letter+envelope with lyx (or kword or oowriter) and click print. If I've
configured my printer (e.g. my Phaser 8860) for Tray1 to be #10envelopes, Tray2
to be letterpaper and Tray3 to be legalpaper, it would be nice for the printer
program to automatically print the letter from Tray2 on letter media and to
print the envelope from Tray1 on #10envelope media. It would be more efficient
to configure defaults for a particular printer and then simply click print
once. 

The LaTeX package envlab has shows several examples of embedding postscript
special commands to automatically switch the paper tray from letter to
envelope. Of course, most programs don't allow the user to embed postscript
special commands. And most users don't know postscript. (Although one can use
"lpoptions -p printqueue -l" to find the printer option names, that doesn't
really help in finding the correct postscript commands) Since KDE's printing
subsystem already knows how to set a printer's options, it would seem better to
just let kprinter find the size of an individual page (maybe postscript
bounding box or something) and choose the default tray for that pagesize for a
particular printer.

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