pages per page is ignored

[StefanS42376868]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

The printer configuration option "pages per page" is completely ignored in Ubuntu 8.04.

To avoid any printer driver dependence (I have an HL-1030_series), I tried even with "PDF" printer.
The PDF-result is exactly what I see also on a printout:
In any case, I get the same printing result with "pages per page = 1" and "pages per page = 2".

With "pages per page = 2", I would expect both input pages (turned by 90°, scaled by 50%) on one output page.
I would even permit, that I have to set the orientation manually, so I tried to change the orientation to landscape ("Ausrichtung = Querformat 90°"), but this does not solve the problem, only the orientation is changed (in my case it is cutted then), but the input-page contents are never scaled.

I guess that the option may only work for postscript printers?

[StefanS42376868 (stefans42376868)]

Meanwhile I found a workaround:
Evince has its own printer dialog, and there the option "pages per sheet" works fine.
So I can just print to PDF first, then open the PDF file and print it again with Evince, where I set the option "2 pages per sheet".

So the bug remains but is of minor importance for me.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Reassigning to cups.

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

I can confirm that this is still an issue with the latest version of Ubuntu.

[jgoguen@hermes:~]$ apt-cache policy cups
cups:
  Installed: 1.3.9-15
  Candidate: 1.3.9-15
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.9-15 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/cups/error_log'
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv2500 Notebook PC
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cups 1.3.9-15
PackageArchitecture: amd64
Papersize: letter
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=775df9a2-1535-42cf-9799-0a70ff607204 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-9.31-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout disk lpadmin mail plugdev sambashare

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/cups/error_log'
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv2500 Notebook PC
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cups 1.3.9-15
PackageArchitecture: amd64
Papersize: letter
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=775df9a2-1535-42cf-9799-0a70ff607204 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-9.31-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout disk lpadmin mail plugdev sambashare

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/cups/error_log'
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv2500 Notebook PC
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cups 1.3.9-15
PackageArchitecture: amd64
Papersize: letter
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=775df9a2-1535-42cf-9799-0a70ff607204 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-9.31-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout disk lpadmin mail plugdev sambashare