[Okular-devel] [Bug 293110] New: Okular ignores CUPS defaults for printers

[reescf at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293110

           Summary: Okular ignores CUPS defaults for printers
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Archlinux Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: reescf at gmail.com


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

Okular does not use default options set for printers in CUPS. The only default
it uses is the default printer (which I would just as soon it ignored).

In addition, there is no way to set Okular-specific defaults for printers that
I've found.

This means that for every document I print, I have to manually select the
correct printer and then set the appropriate options for that printer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Set up some printers in CUPS (I use the web interface).

Set some default options for those printers e.g. for every printer, I change
the default paper from letter to A4, for all printers which have additional
trays etc., I mark those as installed, for printers which allow it, I enable
duplex long-sided flip as default, I may also need to change print quality etc.

Open some PDF documents.

Print them, checking that the settings are correct for the printer you select
for each document.

Actual Results:  
Okular defaults to non-customised default settings for all printers for every
document.

So for document one, if I check the settings, I find: letter, single-sided etc.
If I print this, it indeed prints single-sided etc. So instead I adjust the
options - I select the printer I'm using and I set all the default options for
this job which I enabled in CUPS.

Now I print document two. Again, I need to select the printer and set all of
the options which are default in CUPS i.e. A4, duplex etc.

Repeat as necessary.

Change to a different printer.

Repeat as necessary.

Expected Results:  
Okular should default to the default settings assigned to each printer in CUPS.
So if I just select the printer I'm using and immediately OK printing, I should
get duplex, A4 etc. Whatever is set for that printer.

acroread does a lot wrong but it does this right. It picks up default settings
for each printer from CUPS.

It also defaults to the last-used printer if you print several documents during
the same session. (This is hard because it keeps crashing but if by some
miracle it doesn't, it does this.) This is good because the last-used printer
is the one I'm most likely to want to print to. And whatever that printer is,
it uses the default settings I assigned via CUPS.

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