[Okular-devel] [Bug 242874] New: Please try to make the Okular print dialog more stupid and counter-intuitive

[Simon]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242874

           Summary: Please try to make the Okular print dialog more stupid
                    and counter-intuitive
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.5.81
          Platform: Unlisted Binaries
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: simon.eu at gmail.com


Created an attachment (id=48354)
 --> (http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=48354)
Result of 1st attempt

Version:           0.5.81
OS:                Linux



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I tried to print this document
http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~hiptmair/tmp/NPDE10_1.pdf
with following very extremely complicated options:
* 2-sided print
* 4 pages per side

I know I demand very much from okular. I mean, for example acrobat reader
wasn't able to do that either about 10 years ago.

Nevertheless, here is what I tried:
1. Press Ctrl-P, select pages 147 to 154, select long side for 2-sided print
and 4 pages per side. Print.
Result: Uh yeah, with lots of imagination you could recognize the printed
sheets as slightly familiar to the original document. See attachment.
2. Press Ctrl-P. Select long side again because the dialog does not even try to
remember any previously selected option. Select 4 pages per side again as well.
Select Pages 147 to 154 again. Go to Printer preferences and select Portrait
instead of Landscape because, as the original document is landscape, selecting
what would make sense does not work, as seen previously.
Result: Orientation ... wow. It got it right. Just the order is upside down:

 ______
|3    1|
|4    2|
 ——————
So, on the tab where I selected 4 pages per side, there was the option «Left to
right, top to bottom». Obviously left to right had to be changed. So:
3. Select Long Edge again. Select Portrait again. Select 4 pages per side
again. Select Pages 147 to 154 again. Select «Right to Left, Top to Bottom».
Result?

 _____
|4   2|
|3   1|
 —————

Wtf?
At least this makes sense, because it, as usually, did the opposite I intended.
So:
4. Select pages 147 to 154 again. Select portrait again. Select Long Edge
again. Select 4 pages per side again. Select «From Left to Right, Bottom to
Top». (At least this was it, as far as I remember.)
Result?
Weird. 

 _____
|1   3|
|2   4|
 —————

This is how I wanted it to be. So there must be a bug somewhere. Please put the
pages in random order on the printed page.

Thank you very much in advance.



OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.34-0.slh.9-sidux-amd64
Compiler: cc

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