GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 696203
Reset number of copies to 1 before printing
Last modified: 2014-12-24 00:05:36 UTC
I think it would be great if the number of copies would not be saved in between print operations. Printing a single copy is the standard, printing multiple copies is the exception. Even if someone repeatedly prints multiple copies, the number will be different each time. Resetting the number of copies to one will probably save many people from erroneously printing too many copies and lead to less wasted paper.
This is definitely an annoying misfeature of evince. I am certainly not alone in needing different numbers of copies when printing the same document during different sessions. Ending up with 40 copies of the same document when you wanted to just print it once to actually improve it is quite annoying. Having at least the ability to switch off this behaviour would be greatly appreciated. This misfeature is "unconfirmed" since 2013-03-20. It is very easy to observe: open document and print two copies. Close document. Open and print again: two copies are printed. I hope this is the correct place for posting feature requests for evince.
Created attachment 292908 [details] [review] shell: Do not save n-copies when saving printing settings. See
Hey, sorry, we didint' noticed this bug before. Of course, it's very annnoying, especially if you printed several copies a long time ago and now you print again, you will print many copies and this waist a lot of paper. So, yes, I think we should not save the number of copies in the metadata. Even if I want more copies... I need that action be performed in a explicit way. The patch in the previous comment solves the issue.
Review of attachment 292908 [details] [review]: Thanks
Review of attachment 292908 [details] [review]: pushed, thanks
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.