Bug 303401

Still a problem in the current rawhide I assume?

Yes, still a problem in rawhide.  evince-2.22.1.1-1.fc9 still duplexes
last/first pages together.  However, it no longer gets the collate check-box
backwards, so the steps to reproduce the problem are now:

1.Create a three page document in OpenOffice.org Writer
2.Export to a PDF, call it test.pdf
3.Open PDF in Evince
4.File->Print...
5.Select a duplex-capable printer
6.Focus on the Page Setup tab
7.For Two-Sided select Long Edge (Standard)
8.Focus on the General tab
9.Select 2 copies
10.Make the 'Collate' check-box selected
11.Click Print

*** Bug 444873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I might be wrong about this, but I would think that this is something that
gnome-print or cups should be handling.

I'm assuming that evince is expected to add a final (even) page to the document
for each copy.

If cups (for example) was to have logic that says this is the last page of a
document (for this copy), I'm also duplexing and it's an odd page, so I need to
print a blank page.

Wouldn't this handle this sort of situation for all applications?  Is this possible?

Evince should leave as much as possible to GTK+/cups and not try to be clever,
and *especially* not try to add blank pages to anything (it will always get this
wrong if it tries, due to n-up options and duplexing).

In this instance, evince is generating multiple copies *itself* (see
ev_job_print_run()), and then telling CUPS to duplex that; i.e. it is submitting
a job like "page 1, page 2, page 3, page 1, page 2, page 3" and CUPS cannot know
that there are two separate documents in that.

Rather than trying to generate blank pages to fill up to an even number, evince
should just do the simple thing: submit a job like "page 1, page 2, page 3" and
tell CUPS to print 2 copies of that, duplexed.  CUPS will do the clever stuff.

Kristian, any chance of actually fixing this long-standing bug?

Tim, thanks for this information.  It's nice to know that things are set up as
they should be and the printing is handled by the printing bits.  Here's hoping
this helps with a few other bugs I've filed with regard to duplexing.

It seems that evince has a number of issues with printing at the moment, so I'll
be filing a few more bugs real soon now.

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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(In reply to comment #6)
> Tim, thanks for this information.  It's nice to know that things are set up as
> they should be and the printing is handled by the printing bits.  Here's hoping
> this helps with a few other bugs I've filed with regard to duplexing.

Please add me to the CC for these.  Thanks.

This is still a problem with evince-2.22.2-1.fc9.

Same with evince-2.23.4-1.fc10.

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This is still a problem with evince-2.26.2-1.fc11.x86_64

I open a single page document and print 2 copies with duplexing on and I get a single page with the same page on both sides.

Tim,

can you reopen this bug please.


R.

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As far as I'm aware this is no longer a problem and now works.

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