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On 2011-11-17T07:58:31+00:00 karaluh wrote:

Version:           0.5.81
OS:                Linux

This is according to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/okular/+bug/891199

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
It is stupid i have to fill this textbox all the time


Expected Results:  
It is stupid i have to fill this textbox all the time

OS: Linux (i686) release 3.0.0-13-generic
Compiler: gcc

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On 2011-11-20T19:42:25+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

Expecting me to go to the ubuntu bugtracker and loose my time because
you did not want to loose your time is selfish and bad mannered.

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On 2011-11-20T19:49:17+00:00 Ismail-f wrote:

Don't know if its valid or not but here is the upstream bug report:

The standard format for print jobs has changed from PostScript to PDF:

http://www.openprinting.org/
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdf_as_standard_print_job_format

Most applications are switched over from sending PostScript to sending
PDF and CUPS in Debian and Ubuntu turns every incoming job to PDF, does
page management operations (N-up, selected pages, ...) on a PDF data
stream and then rasterizes the PDF data directly into the printer's
native language.

While investigating bug 891074 I have found out that Okular is one of
the few programs which still sends PostScript. To make the CUPS workflow
more straight and to fulfill the new standard it should send PDF (and
AFAIK the other KDE programs send PDF). In addition, the most displayed
file format is PDF and Okular could simply pass through the PDF input
files when printing, making the printing even faster and more reliable.

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On 2011-11-20T21:44:00+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

I don't see why this is a bug, moving to wish. Postscript printing
should still be supported by Ubuntu, and if it is not, it is their
problem they decided to move away from the default printing system
without caring for people using the printing system itself.

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On 2011-11-21T08:35:11+00:00 karaluh wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)
> Expecting me to go to the ubuntu bugtracker and loose my time because you did
> not want to loose your time is selfish and bad mannered.

Writing this comment took you more time than following the link I
provided. I report bugs to help make KDE better, not to be insulted by
arrogant devs. For the record, pasting takes the same amount of time
regardless of the size of text pasted, which makes your assumptions
about my manners invalid. This is the last Okular bug I ever reported.

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On 2011-11-21T08:46:22+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)
> Writing this comment took you more time than following the link I provided. 
It did to me, but do you think I am the only person reading KDE bugs? 
There is lots of people trying to read, triage and fix KDE bugs, the fact that 
you make each and every of them go to ubuntu bug tracker to read something that 
could be easily be put into this bug report is making lots of people lose lots 
of time. That is bad for all of us, included you, since it lowers the 
possibility of your bug ever getting fixed.

> I  report bugs to help make KDE better, not to be insulted by arrogant devs. 
> For
> the record, pasting takes the same amount of time regardless of the size of
> text pasted, which makes your assumptions about my manners invalid. 
So you did not make it to save your time, why did you paste the text then?

> This is the last Okular bug I ever reported.
This means your bugs might go unfixed since there might  be no report about it. 
You are only harming yourself with this stance

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On 2011-11-21T10:19:44+00:00 karaluh wrote:

(In reply to comment #5)
> There is lots of people trying to read, triage and fix KDE bugs, the fact that
> you make each and every of them go to ubuntu bug tracker to read something 
> that could be easily be put into this bug report is making lots of people 
> lose lots of time. That is bad for all of us, included you, since it lowers
> the possibility of your bug ever getting fixed.

Valid point.

> So you did not make it to save your time, why did you paste the text
then?

I didn't see the reason to do that. Now back to the bug:

(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't see why this is a bug, moving to wish.

Not following official standard IMHO is a bug.

> Postscript printing should still
> be supported by Ubuntu,

It is.

> and if it is not, it is their problem they decided to
> move away from the default printing

The new default is to sent jobs to CUPS as PDFs.

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On 2011-11-21T22:47:29+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

(In reply to comment #6)
> > I don't see why this is a bug, moving to wish.
> 
> Not following official standard IMHO is a bug.

It's not a bug because:
 a) "Printing to PDF as default" won't be the default until CUPS 1.6 that is 
still not shipped in any distro, just that Ubuntu decided to go on their way 
and enable it already
 b) We need to support other printing systems other than cups
 c) Printing to PDF instead of PS won't have any visible benefit to the user, 
other than maybe a somehow shorter printing time since there won't be one 
conversion less in the chain

> 
> > Postscript printing should still
> > be supported by Ubuntu,
> 
> It is.

No it is not, i've spoke with Till this morning and he has agreed there
is a problem printing some Postcript files and it is something they have
to fix, actually he told me he has a fix for it already and will be
pushed shortly fixing your problem printing in Okular

> 
> > and if it is not, it is their problem they decided to
> > move away from the default printing
> 
> The new default is to sent jobs to CUPS as PDFs.

Yes, the issue as I said is we support more printing systems than CUPS

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On 2015-03-10T10:45:04+00:00 Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote:

This is a real problem for us. We (City of Munich) generate large mail
merge documents (PDF with 4k - 8k pages, some even 16k), which we want
to print from KDE. Generation using LibreOffice + WollMux takes ~2
hours, but even with the latest GhostScript 9.15, which is 50% faster
then the GhostScript version shipped in Ubuntu Precise, it takes more
then a day for poppler (0.24.x) just to generate the PostScript to be
send to the CUPS server. And additionally we still have the conversation
to PCL for the printer on the CUPS server side.

Using a printer, which supports direct PDF printing, would get the time
down to just the file transfer time, if Okular would actually send the
PDF.

And for some of our test documents the generated PS is much larger (8-10
times, talking about GB here) then the original PDF, which is written to
tmp and "copied" to /var/spool for local CUPS or send to a central print
server.

If you still think this is not a bug, it would be nice to get some code
pointers in current KDE4 okular codebase, so we can probably hire
someone to get this fixed and included Upstream.

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