Bug#739119: evince: Evince quite recently (end Jan-mid Feb '14) lost the ability to specify duplex options

[Emmanuel Charpentier]

Package: evince
Version: 3.10.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Trying to print some PDF documents from evince using duplex led me to an
impossibility.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

In the "page setup" tab of the "printing" dialog box, I tried to set the
"Duplex" option to "Duplex long edge". To no avail : the only available option
is "Single-side" (or something to that effect : my french interface says
"Recto").

Things to note :
        1) The relevant printer IS correctly configured, and has been able,
until fairly recently, to print duplex -long-edge or short-edge) from evince.
        2) This printer is still able to print duplex :
                a) from the command-line : "lpr -P <trherightqueue> -o
Duplex=DuplexTumble" does The Right Thing
                b) from Wine's Acrobat Reader : all printing option wok as
advertised
                c) from LibreOffice : ditto...

   * What was the outcome of this action?

No duplex printing available... fron evince

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

To be able to duplex-print from evince.

HTH,

                                        Emmanuel Charpentier

PS1 : I didn't try to install evince-gtk, because this would lose gnome and
gnome-task-desktop from my installed packages. I saw another bug report
suggesting to add that evonce-gtk provides evince, and second that suggestion.

PS2 : I also second the (acrimonious) report about the "vandalization" of the
evince interface, but this would be more accurately to the master  Gnome
vandals team...



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (60, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common              3.10.0-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.10.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-97
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libevdocument3-4           3.10.0-2
ii  libevview3-3               3.10.0-2
ii  libgail-3-0                3.8.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.8.6-1
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.8.2-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libsecret-1-0              0.15-2
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  shared-mime-info           1.0-1+b1
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.0-1
ii  gvfs      1.16.3-2

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  nautilus      3.8.2-2
ii  poppler-data  0.4.6-4
pn  unrar         <none>

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