KDE printing disasters

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 04 October 2008 14:48:24 Carl-Valentin Schmitt wrote:
> 2008/10/3 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
>
> >  On Friday 03 October 2008 04:38:36 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > > > I'm completely stumped with the bug report.  This problem is not
> >
> > confined
> >
> > > > to any end-user application, but to the printer properties control,
> > > > as
> > > >
> > > > far as I can see.  Searching on bugs.kde.org against 'printer
> >
> > properties'
> >
> > > > doesn't bring up anything.  What application should I file this
> >
> > against?
> >
> > > Try kprint or kprinter.
> >
> > I've resolved the problem, but need an opinion as to whether to go ahead
> > with a bug report.
> >
> > I ran kprinter from krunner - not from a document. There I found that it
> > was using rolodex size (4 x 6 index card?) as the default. This was,
> > apparently, overriding anything I set anywhere else. I had set the print
> > options in the new print dialogue to A4, and the advanced page seemed to
> > show that the paper size was A4, yet it was using the index card size and
> > scaling everything to print.
> >
> > Having made the change in kprinter and saved it, the problem is resolved.
> > In all the installs I've ever done, in any of the four distros I've used,
> > I've never seen this behaviour. I suspect that the problem is this
> > change-over period where two packages are attempting to control printing,
> > causing conflicts. What do you think?
> >
> CUPS should be sufficient, no need to use kprinter then ...
> Val.
>
Val, top-posting makes reading a thread extremely difficult, so I've moved 
your comment.

No, CUPS was not sufficient.  I had already been down that path and nothing 
showed up amiss in CUPS.  Bringing up kprinter without a job attached is what 
made the problem clear.

Anne
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