Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 171784
printing in mode 'horizontal' and 'multiple pages per sheet' results in incorrect page order
Last modified: 2009-01-09 01:54:42 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7 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.
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.
it seems the same bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97669
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.
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This bug is still present in kdebase-3.5.3-0.4.fc5.
This bug is still present in kdebase-3.5.8-5.fc8.
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