GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 125897
Doesn't support gnome-print options
Last modified: 2006-01-29 19:28:20 UTC
The GNOME print dialogue allows me to select a layout of 2- and 4-up printing, but when printing to a file (at least) these files are not n-up. (This is a plea to implement n-up if it's not implemented already: there is no other way for me to get certain pdfs to print 4-up, as they are created with buggy software.)
If I haven't missed something, none of the other gnome-print options work. I can't make a page print landscape :(
Most of the gnome-print options are handled quite nicely by CUPS (n-up, etc), so it shouldn't be as much work as I feared. However, having those options available and do nothing is a pretty major bug.
The implementation of print feature in gpdf is at now using gnome-print dialog, but use a private PS generation class available in xpdf. This is mainly because gnome-print had performance problems when gnome-2-4 was released (a 1000 pages document was pretty long to print, a minutes order). For gnome 2.8 a new gnome-print backend will be conducted and I intend to profile if the same performance problems arise. So, as the final print backend will surely be gnome-print it is a waste of time to invest on current backend to make it gnome-print friendly. Sorry for it ... you should be able to try a 2.7 gpdf with gnome-print backend soon (I hope).
I've written a patch for libgnomeprint to fix this - at least when using the CUPS backend. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-print-list/2005-February/msg00005.html
this still exists in gnome 2.10... as is quite frustrating being presented with an option that does not actually do what it says.
Closing WONTFIX. GPdf is no longer maintained. Please use evince for your pdf viewing needs. http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince Unfortunately evince has the same non-existing n-up support: Bug 315526 Please add yourself to the Cc list of that bug to be informed when progress is made wrt. that bug.
recommend re-resolving this as a dup of bug 315526.