Printing with "Print range" prints wrong page range

[Volgovod]

Binary package hint: evince

For example, when printing this book: www.phptr.com/content/images/0131473816/downloads/0131473816_book.pdf

File -> Print... -> {any printer, including "Print to File"} -> Print Pages/Range: 433-436

results in pages 397-400.

With smaller PDF's printing works as should.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. That's not really a bug, the page with the number "1"is not the first one because the document starts by using i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, etc. I've opened a bug upstream about that on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438734

[Volgovod (a-prytkov)]

Yes, you're right.
And, if I properly understand, this leads to impossibility of printing pages [i, ii, ...] as "Print range".

[Volgovod (a-prytkov)]

I'm very sorry for my previous message.
This is caused by my poor English and that I entangled
in files, which I printed into the PDF.
Printing i, ii, ... pages works fine with page range 1-...
I think this topic can be closed.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

Reopening, because I'm not clear on what the resolution was here.

I tried printing a page range from this PDF:
http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html

This PDF uses page numbering like i,ii,iii etc such that actual labelled page numbers in the bulk of the text are offset from the simple natural number sequence. I think that the 'Print range' input box should use the labelled page numbers, rather than the natural numbers, because that is what the 'go to page' box does in evince.

[Bartek (tschew)]

Implementing John's idea appears to be easy on the surface: after all, evince stores a list connecting document page numbers to physical page numbers. There's one problem though: in Lienhard's book the first two pages have no label at all! (title page & empty page)

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

Indeed! Well, in that case perhaps the print dialog needs to allow both kinds of page numbers, somehow.

Might be worth cross-checking to see how Acrobat/Reader does this stuff, for consistency?

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

the pages numbers in the print really ought to match the page numbers show in the toolbar. other wise the only way to print the correct pages is to manually count through the file to find them.