[okular] [Bug 391953] Cannot print multiple copies of the same page onto a single page

[Michael Weghorn]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391953

Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn at posteo.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn at posteo.de> ---
Thanks for your report. I'd personally regard this as two separate aspects:

(In reply to siauderman from comment #0)
> Hi, today I was trying to print 2 copies of a 1 page PDF onto a single sheet
> of paper. However, instead it printed 2 separate pages for me with the page
> only occupying the top half of the page. 

I personally consider this behaviour to be correct as is.
Since those are two separate copies, they should go on separate pages in my
opininion.
Consider e.g. the case where you want to print a handout with 3 pages several
times, with two sheets on every page and in duplex.
I would expect that each copy is on a separate sheet (so that you can give this
to another person), and not that the first page of the second printout is on
the same sheet as the third page of the first printout (which would be the
equivalent of your scenario of having two copies of a one-page-document being
printed on a single sheet).

> Subsequently I tried to print
> multiple copies of the same page to a single PDF so that I could then use it
> to print the same page twice on a single sheet of paper, but no matter how
> many times I tried, the generated PDF only contained 1 page (i.e. it refused
> to print the same page twice).

That's actually a bug. When I tried "Print to File (PDF)" and selected multiple
copies in Kate, the outcome was the same for me, so it looks like this is not
an Okular-specific problem, but rather one in the Qt print dialog which is used
by KDE applications.

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