Bug 148259 – kpdf ignores duplex printing options and always uses duplex

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gilles Schintgen 2006-09-19 15:38:03 UTC]

It seems that the poppler-patched kpdf provided by Gentoo has a serious printing bug: it *forces* duplex printing. In fact, this renders kpdf pretty much useless for printing. Even for single page documents it's annoying since it uses the duplex unit to print an empty second page on the reverse side.

poppler-0.5.3
poppler-bindings-0.5.3
kpdf-3.5.3
cups-1.1.23-r8

Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8g1 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8g1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Last Sync: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
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-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.93
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=""
LINGUAS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/sci"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion bidi bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli crypt css cups curl dbus dga divx4linux dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode evo fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gb gd gif gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl ieee1394 imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jabber jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mbox mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl plotutils png ppds pppd qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl scanner sdl session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa videos vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xorg xosd xv xvid zeroconf zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-04 20:33:07 UTC]

Hello Gilles, I suppose this isn't an issue anymore with >=kpdf-3.5.5-r1?!

[Comment 2 Gilles Schintgen 2007-04-06 11:43:07 UTC]

Indeed, it's working correctly in kpdf-0.5.6-r1.

Thanks a lot!