Issue 34384 - printing through kprinter 2-up on A4 prints blank pages
Summary: printing through kprinter 2-up on A4 prints blank pages
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: printing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.2
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joost Andrae
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords: oooqa
: 42484 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-09-20 09:47 UTC by andypepperdine
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description andypepperdine 2004-09-20 09:47:32 UTC
Base info: 
  Suse 9.1 kernel 2.6.5-7.95-default 
  kprinter --version 
    Qt: 3.3.1 
    KDE: 3.2.1 
    kprinter: 0.0.1 
  OOo 1.1.2 
 
When printing a 2-page A4 size black and white text document, one page per 
sheet, everything is OK. When trying to get kprinter to print 2-up on A4 (i.e. 
2 at A5 size per sheet, at 71% size) it prints only the second sheet, the 
first showing as blank. 
 
Using OOo 1.1.1, these documents print as expected, both for 1 and 2 per 
sheet. 
 
Looking at the differences between the postscript files generated for the two 
cases, I notice that for 1.1.2, there are unbalanced square brackets, and that 
an extra left bracket is introduced where there was no such code from 1.1.1; 
and there is no ending right bracketfrom 1.1.2. The text for one document is: 
 [{ 
 %%BeginFeature: *PageSize A4 
 <</PageSize [595 842] /ImagingBBox null>> setpagedevice 
 %%EndFeature 
 } stopped cleartomark 
 %%EndPageSetup 
 
Andy.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-09-20 13:17:27 UTC
reassigned to HI.
Comment 2 lohmaier 2004-09-23 20:52:43 UTC
FYI: OOo can print n'up on its own (Choose page-preview, configure how many
pages you want on a single page using the print-options button and hit the
"print page view" button)
Comment 3 h.ilter 2005-01-11 10:27:11 UTC
Passed to JA.
Comment 4 philipp.lohmann 2005-01-11 12:04:39 UTC
The brackets are supposed to ensure that the PostScript interpreter does not
stopped if it cannot understand the code inside the marked section (that begins
with '['). The problem why popular n-up filters fail on the code is that the
paper size is set in the PageSetup section instead of the Setup section; this is
due to the fact that OOo can print documents with differing page sizes and
therefore cannot state the page size in the global "Setup" section but only in
the "PageSetup" that belongs to each page.

I recommend using the OOo's "Page Preview" functionality to produce n-up
printouts of OOo documents.
Comment 5 philipp.lohmann 2005-01-11 12:04:58 UTC
closing
Comment 6 philipp.lohmann 2005-03-04 13:27:29 UTC
*** Issue 42484 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***