Bugzilla Bug 162151

With this last version, it's now impossible to choose the printing paper size.
Before, I could choose A4 but not now.

As of this version, evince uses the GTK printing, rather than libgnomeprintui. 
This makes a lot of printing different.

The possible settings (in the Page Setup tab) change based on the available
printer.  I do not have the option to change the paper size, but my printer
(and it's settings) only allow one paper size anyway.  I do have the option to
change things like the paper tray, which are available on my printer.

Have you selected the correct printer from the list (or is Print to File
selected?)  If you do, does it allow you to change the paper size?  Does your
printer even allow you to change the paper size?  Can you set the paper size
correctly in the printer driver in the first place (in gnome-cups-manager)?

Well, yes I have the correct printer selected. I can print.
But, header and footer are cut.
With the previous evince version, I had to chose A4 to correct this.
Now, I can't.
My printer is on my server (cups) and works correctly with OOo for example.
I don't have gnome-cups-manager, I don't use gnome but kde/xfce4.

$ lpoptions -p HP5652 -l
PageSize/Page Size: Custom Letter *A4 Photo Photo5x7 PhotoTearOff 3x5 5x8 A5 A6
A6TearOff B5JIS Env10 EnvC5 EnvC6 EnvDL EnvISOB5 EnvMonarch Executive FLSA
Hagaki Legal Oufuku w558h774 w612h935
PrintoutMode/Printout Mode: Draft Draft.Gray *Normal Normal.Gray High High.Gray
Photo
PageRegion/PageRegion: Letter A4 Photo Photo5x7 PhotoTearOff 3x5 5x8 A5 A6
A6TearOff B5JIS Env10 EnvC5 EnvC6 EnvDL EnvISOB5 EnvMonarch Executive FLSA
Hagaki Legal Oufuku w558h774 w612h935
InputSlot/Media Source: *Default PhotoTray Upper Lower Envelope LargeCapacity
Manual MPTray
Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble *None
Quality/Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type: *FromPrintoutMode
300ColorCMYK 300ColorCMYKFullBleed 300DraftColorCMYK 300DraftGrayscaleCMYK
300FastDraftColorCMYK 300FastDraftGrayscaleCMYK 300GrayscaleCMYK 600ColorCMYK
600ColorCMYKFullBleed 600GrayscaleCMYK 1200PhotoCMYK 1200PhotoCMYKFullBleed


PS : sorry for my bad english

Do you have any other gnome programs you can try and print with?  Gedit would
be a good one.  I'm trying to figure out if this is an evince bug or a
gtk-print bug.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Do you have any other gnome programs you can try and print with?  Gedit would
> be a good one.  I'm trying to figure out if this is an evince bug or a
> gtk-print bug.
> 

I have this problem, and also it's imposible to switch to landscape mode.
This is not evince bug - since you can see same dialog in gtk-demo(gtk+ code
demos).

This 'feature' has forced me to go back to Acrobat. I just noticed the
changelog for 0.7 includes:

 * Added paper size field to the properties dialog. (Kasper Svendsen, Wouter
Bolsterlee)

Any chance of a version bump in Portage?

Paper size field is there, but I can't set it (it's greyed out).  The bump is
already in the gnome overlay, could you maybe try it from there and see if it
fixes your problem?  It has gnome 2.17 dependencies, so it can't go into
portage until 2.18 comes out. (overlay info at
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnome/wiki) 

Or you could just downgrade for now.  Old versions of evince are still in the
tree.

Since I've failed to backport the 0.7.x patches to make gtkprint work, I've
added 0.6.1-r2 that forces gnomeprint.

I have no printer installed, but evince-0.6.1-r2 wants to pull in
gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.12.1 and gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.12.1. Why
would I want those two packages if I don't even own a printer?

Because evince needs to be able to display a print dialog, and possibly print
to postscript files (which you don't need a printer for).  Evince needs a print
dialog, most software does;  You cannot disable it.

If you don't have libnomeui, you need gtk+-2.10 for it's print dialog, but
gtkprint is broken in evince 0.6.x and only fixed in evince 0.7.x.  Evince used
to depend on libgnomeprintui before the gtkprint stuff was added, this is just
reverting to that.