[okular] [Bug 503404] New: Trim To Selection doesn't apply when printing

[Steven Maddox]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503404

            Bug ID: 503404
           Summary: Trim To Selection doesn't apply when printing
    Classification: Applications
           Product: okular
           Version: 25.04.0
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: All
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: printing
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: s.maddox at lantizia.me.uk
  Target Milestone: ---

First of all thank you for a decent PDF viewer!  I have just started using
Okular mostly because it has a 'Trim To Selection' feature.

Often my use case for this... would be when I open an A4 PDF which has a 4x6"
shipping label in the corner and a bunch of instructions elsewhere on the page.
 In these circumstances I'm expecting to be able to 'Trim To Selection' to the
shipping label... and then go to print and choose my Dymo LabelWriter 4XL
(which prints to 4x6" shipping labels) and bingo!

Except, no ... it prints the entire page squished into that label... doh!

This would seem to be counter intuitive really... most users would expect that
it would print what you've trimmed to.

Heck if I put into Google... okular "trim to selection" print

Google AI / Gemini answers... "To print only the selected area in Okular using
the "trim to selection" feature, first select the desired area using the "Trim
View" -> "Trim to Selection" tool. Then, navigate to "File" -> "Print", and
Okular will automatically use the trimmed selection for printing. "

Which seems to not be true?  Typical of Gemini really.  But even so, if both a
human and an AI think it should be obvious what should happen... I think giving
this experience the label of being counterproductive is warranted.

Any chance we can change this behavior?

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