Bug#528634: "n-up" printing bites with even/odd selection

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Thu May 14 09:59:10 UTC 2009


Package: evince
Version: 2.24.2-2+b1
Severity: normal

This probably applies to other GTK/GNOME apps, but I couldn't figure
out a better place to file the bug report, thus evince where I met
it. Please reassign as appropriate.

I just wanted to print a large document such that I'd have two
logical pages on one physical page, and do manual duplex, since my
printer cannot do duplex itself.

Thus, I told evince to print "2 pages per side" and only the "odd
sheets". The result was quite different to what I expected:

  1/3, 5/7, 9/11, …

when I expected

  1/2, 5/6, 9/10, …

Arguably, the print dialog should be able to do both, so it would
help to make that configurable. And it would help if there was some
sort of graphical representation of what will happen, so that the
user knows what's going on.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.26.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.24.0-4          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.14-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-4            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdjvulibre21         3.5.21-3          Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.0-4         GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.4-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.1-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.26.0-4          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea4           2007.dfsg.2-6     TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpoppler-glib4       0.10.6-1          PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.0-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libspectre1            0.2.2.ds-1+b2     Library for rendering Postscript d
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.0-4           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-11          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info       0.60-2            FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.14-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gvfs                          1.2.2-2    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn  nautilus                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  poppler-data                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  unrar                         1:3.8.5-2  Unarchiver for .rar files (non-fre

-- no debconf information


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