Bug 68416 – 4 pages to 1 layout in gpdf just prints out 1 pager per sheet.

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Holmberg 2004-10-21 09:43:40 UTC]

4 pages to 1 layout in gpdf just prints out 1 pager per sheet. The layout preview shows that it should indeed print 4 pages per sheet.2 pages to 1 does not work either. Also, why is the print preview button disabled (it works in gnome in general)?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open PDF document in gpdf
2. Open the print dialog, set Layout to 4 pages to 1.
3. Print

Actual Results:  
The printout has 1 page per sheet, justa as if I had not choosen a layout other
than the default

Expected Results:  
Four pages per sheet.

This is the "GNOME PDF viewer" version 2.8.0, the latest version in x86~ as of
20.10.2004.

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2005-03-02 14:26:43 UTC]

can't test. maybe someone of the printing team ?

I bet this is an upstream problem.
I'm guessing preview being disabled having todo with xpdf backend.

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-03-15 12:34:18 UTC]

what about gpdf in gnome-2.10?

[Comment 3 Dave Shanker 2005-05-02 15:42:54 UTC]

Looks like the issue is upstream as I found following bug describing the exact same issue:

http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300050

From that bug report on GNOME's bugzilla, the issue looks to be present in 2.10 also.

[Comment 4 Robert Holmberg 2005-05-04 08:03:02 UTC]

Ok finally got 2.10 installed and the problem still persists. 4 to 1 (and 2 to 1) printing still only printes one page per sheet. Also in gnome-pdf 2.10.0 the print preview button is disabled, can anyone tell me how to fix this?

[Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-05-31 16:52:46 UTC]

upstream bug, please report there, next gnome version will switch to evidence 
most likely though