Bug 130314 – KPDF prints every other page backwards

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dima Ryazanov 2006-04-17 17:16:44 UTC]

Ok, this sounds silly...

But when I try to print double-sided, by printing odd pages first, then even - KPDF prints every other page backwards.
That is, 1, 5, 9, ... are ok, while 3, 7, 11, ... are backwards. Same with even pages. Now I have to figure out how to put the pages back to make even and odd ones match.

Also, KPDF prints a blank page at the end - even if it's a 1-page document, it prints 2 pages.

I'm using KDE 3.5.2, with hplip-0.9.8-r2.


emerge --info:

Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.0.3, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.noved.org/"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en uk ru de es"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa asf audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdparanoia crypt css cups curl dbus dga directfb divx4linux dri dvd dvdr emboss encode fbcon ffmpeg flash foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal lcms lesstif libg++ libwww litz live lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer msn musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl oscar pam pdf pdflib perl pic png povray ppds pppd qt quicktime rdesktop readline real rtc samba scanner sdl session sftplogging slp snmp speex spell sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg tcpd tetex theora tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs xcomposite xine xinerama xml2 xprint xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_uk linguas_ru linguas_de linguas_es userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_ati"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-04-19 09:05:50 UTC]

Which ghostscript package are you using? Is this a problem with all pdf files or a specific one?

[Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-04-29 10:02:35 UTC]

Waiting for feedback.

[Comment 3 Dima Ryazanov 2006-09-04 16:29:00 UTC]

Right now, I'm using ghostscript-gpl-8.54, kpdf 0.5.4 (from kdegraphics-3.5.4), cups-1.1.23-r8.

It happens with multiple PDF files - and not just with even- or odd-page printing.

I tried to create a simple test case... But it wouldn't print *at all*.

I will attach it.

[Comment 4 Dima Ryazanov 2006-09-04 16:31:49 UTC]

Created attachment 96014 [details]
PDF that won't print

I created a file in KWrite, with a "v" on every line, and printed it to PDF.

Now, if I open it in KPDF, everything looks fine. But, when I try to print it, nothing happens. Print preview also shows 5 blank pages.

[Comment 5 Dima Ryazanov 2006-09-04 16:38:13 UTC]

Created attachment 96016 [details]
A 3-page PDF that prints the second page backwards

Here, preview shows everything correctly. But, when printed, the second page is upside-down.

[Comment 6 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2006-09-04 18:43:59 UTC]

Is this bug related to bug #126705 ?

[Comment 7 Dima Ryazanov 2006-09-05 12:21:35 UTC]

Yeah, the symptoms seem to be the same: the 180 degree rotations and blank pages.

But, that bug has been marked fixed. I just tried app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1_p20060430 - and it still gives me blank pages... I'll see if 180-degree rotations are there, too.

[Comment 8 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-09 19:16:39 UTC]

Is this still a problem with latest stable or testing KPDF?

[Comment 9 Wulf Krueger (RETIRED) 2007-05-12 22:42:27 UTC]

No response.