From bugzilla_noreply at kde.org  Mon Nov  9 13:28:57 2015
From: bugzilla_noreply at kde.org (Gilbie Rivas via KDE Bugzilla)
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:28:57 +0000
Subject: [Kde-print-devel] [kdeprint] [Bug 90989] collecting pages before
	printing
In-Reply-To: <bug-90989-58723@http.bugs.kde.org/>
References: <bug-90989-58723@http.bugs.kde.org/>
Message-ID: <bug-90989-58723-UOVuz8t6n0@http.bugs.kde.org/>

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90989

Gilbie Rivas <rivasgilbie121 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #21 from Gilbie Rivas <rivasgilbie121 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Kurt Pfeifle from comment #1)
> Mark,
> 
> thank you for your bug report/wishlist item.
> 
> The bug that your reported however, does not apply to KDEPrint. The reason:
> 
> --> this functionality has been implemented many years ago already! <-- 
> 
> The bug report will be closed.
> 
> To get the 2-up output you want, you should have CUPS installed. I did this 
> with the current KDE CVS HEAD version of KDEPrint (but this is the same in 
> the last few releases):
> 
> 1. start kprinter
> 2. click "Expand" button (lower left)
> 3. select the "Files" tab
> 4. click "Add file" button (the uppermost one on the right side of the
>     tab, see also tooltip)
> 5. select as many printable files as you want to put into one printjob 
>     (these may be PDF, PostScript, ASCII text, images like jpeg, png,
>     tiff... -- and these may be mixed into the same job too!)
> 6. order the files as you want them to appear in the final printout (use
>     the arrow buttons to the right of the tab)
> 7. select your target printer
> 8. click "Properties..." (upper right of the dialog)
> 9. on the "General" tab, select your 2-up or 4-up settings, on the other
>     tabs select whatever applies (NOTE, that some settings do apply to
>     some file types, like "scale to 100% of page size" only applies to
>     images...)
> 10. print and be happy with KDEPrint  ;-)
> 
> 
> Final note: KDEPrint is just a frontend to the underlying print 
> subsystem. As such it works best with CUPS, which is very powerful
> (and KDEPrint really shines with it).
> 
> KDEPrint's own functionality are the "Virtual Printers" such as "Print
> to File (PDF)". If you want to use these in a similar way as described
> above, you have to make sure that you have all the required pre-filters 
> installed which you can access via "Properties" --> "Filters" tab (see 
> the "Requirement: "exec:/...." comments there).
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt Pfeifle

Good comments ! For my two cents , if others is searching for a service to
merge PDF files , my family saw a service here <a
href="http://www.altomerge.com/" >http://www.altomerge.com/</a>.

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