Bug 171784

Summary: printing in mode 'horizontal' and 'multiple pages per sheet' results in incorrect page order
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Radek Bíba <rbiba>
Component: kdebaseAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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A horizontally oriented document none

Description Radek Bíba 2005-10-26 12:50:25 UTC
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Description of problem:
When I try to print a horizontally oriented document and put more (e.g. 4) pages
on one sheet, pages on the printed sheet don't flow in an expected order.

E.g. four pages on one sheet are printed in such a way that the first page is in
the upper-right quadrant, second one is in lower-right, third one in upper-left
and the fourth page is in the lower-left quadrant. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.4.2-0.fc3.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. take a horizontally oriented document and open it in a KDE viewer. I'm gonna
attach an example PDF document which you can open e.g. in kpdf)
2. open the print dialog, click on Properties and select 4 pages per sheet
3. you can as well select Print to File (PDF) so you don't have to waste the
paper
4. click on Print and either see the printed result or open the document that
was created using Print to File

Actual Results:  +---+---+
| 3 | 1 |
+---+---+
| 4 | 2 |
+---+---+

Expected Results:  +---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
+---+---+
| 3 | 4 |
+---+---+

-which is common when one prints four vertical pages on one sheet . As a matter
of fact, the actual results are expected results rotated by 90 degrees.

Additional info:

I'm not entirely sure if it's a bug in the KDE printing system but I'm not aware
of a system that is capable of the features mentioned here so I couldn't try it
somewhere else.

kdebase in FC4 has the same issue.

Comment 1 Radek Bíba 2005-10-26 12:59:26 UTC
Created attachment 120411 [details]
A horizontally oriented document

This file contains four pages and a number on each one. If you open this
document
in a KDE viewer (e.g. kpdf) and print it using '4 pages on one sheet' you'll
see
the bug.

Comment 2 Than Ngo 2005-10-27 09:17:13 UTC
it seems the same bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97669

Comment 3 Radek Bíba 2005-10-27 09:47:58 UTC
Partially; that bug concerns printing in reverse order but the problem here is
described in its comment 10. It actually should be a separate bug.

Comment 4 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 20:46:20 UTC
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!


Comment 5 Radek Bíba 2006-07-11 08:06:34 UTC
This bug is still present in kdebase-3.5.3-0.4.fc5.

Comment 6 Radek Bíba 2007-11-12 16:32:12 UTC
This bug is still present in kdebase-3.5.8-5.fc8.

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