[okular] [Bug 436388] Printing page ranges doesn't work with "Print to File (PDF)"

[Flossy Cat]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436388

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--- Comment #10 from Flossy Cat <flossy-cat at online.de> ---
This bug still exists in version 23.08.5!

This is very unfortunate. Consider the following scenario:

A user has a document, where a specific page and the document meta data is
sensitive.
While perusing the document with "okular", the user wants to forward all pages
BUT this sensitive page and the meta data.
(I know there are other, better tools for the job – the hapless example user
perhaps not …)

Printing selected pages to a new PDF is an obvious – but here ill-advised –
approach.

This is against the UX principle of "Least nasty surprises"!

At minimum the page selection MUST be grayed out, when printing to PDF – and a
warning must be triggered, if a page selection was done before selected a PDF
output. And this is definitely not happening! I just tried …

These are the nasty consequences of the very ill-advised decision to deprecate
"kprinter" with the transition from KDE3 to KDE4.
With "kprinter" as a generic printer interface for all KDE applications, there
was no need to replicate the same function over a multitude of applications.
The selection of pages to print, the layout of pages on sheets, a preview of
what would actually be printed and the choice of printer targets (including
"printing" to files) were in one place, working neatly and consistently and
bringing improvements to all applications … (even to "gnuplot", e.g.)

The only SW currently providing a similar functionality – to my knowledge – is
"boomaga", which seems not well curated …

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