Okular printing (WAS: Re: libkdeprint)

[John Layt]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Saturday 03 Nov 2007, John Layt wrote:
> > I'll get the last few margins kinks worked out today and we should be
> > good to go.
>
> How is this doing?  It doesn't seem to be in Okular at the moment.  I'd
> quite like to be able to change the status of printing at
> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Beta_Goals#Printing
>
> Alex

Almost there, still to do:
* ps spectre backend to be completed
* Change namespace to okular (seeing as no other apps left to use it)
* Confirm with dvi maintainer that printing wasn't working before
* Under Win & OSX(?) disable print menu item for FilePrinter backends
* Print preview for ps files by cloning KPrintPreview and call kpart for ps
* Print to file option clean-up
* Revisit the Cups detection stuff

Should be done end of Sunday.

I've been wasting a lot of time trying to solve a problem with Landscape 
printing, which I now think may be a Qt4 bug.

Printing a Portrait PDF document works fine if you select Portrait in the 
Print Dialog, and if you select Landscape in the Print Dialog it is correctly 
oriented and scaled but slightly cut-off at the right margin.

Printing a Landscape PDF document and selecting Landscape in the Print Dialog 
results in a correctly rotated page but cut-off at Portrait length.  Instead, 
selecting Portrait in the Print Dialog produces perfect results.

I also get the same problem in QPainter/QPrinter based backends (e.g. jpegs 
and comicbook) with landscape images, and I'm getting it printing anything 
from the Qt4 Assistant in landscape.  Printing from KDE3 or QT3 Assistant is 
fine. I'm using openSuse 10.3, Qt 4.3.2.  

The Qt bug tracker has some old fixed bugs for what sounds like this problem, 
so I wonder if they've accidently regressed?

Can anyone else replicate this?  Simply fire up Qt4 Assistant and in the print 
dialog choose Landscape and then print and tell me if it comes out OK?  Or 
apply the attached patch and try a landscape format document/image.

Cheers!

John.

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