Comment 23 for bug 340958

(In reply to Kurt Pfeifle from comment #1)
> Mark,
>
> thank you for your bug report/wishlist item.
>
> The bug that your reported however, does not apply to KDEPrint. The reason:
>
> --> this functionality has been implemented many years ago already! <--
>
> The bug report will be closed.
>
> To get the 2-up output you want, you should have CUPS installed. I did this
> with the current KDE CVS HEAD version of KDEPrint (but this is the same in
> the last few releases):
>
> 1. start kprinter
> 2. click "Expand" button (lower left)
> 3. select the "Files" tab
> 4. click "Add file" button (the uppermost one on the right side of the
> tab, see also tooltip)
> 5. select as many printable files as you want to put into one printjob
> (these may be PDF, PostScript, ASCII text, images like jpeg, png,
> tiff... -- and these may be mixed into the same job too!)
> 6. order the files as you want them to appear in the final printout (use
> the arrow buttons to the right of the tab)
> 7. select your target printer
> 8. click "Properties..." (upper right of the dialog)
> 9. on the "General" tab, select your 2-up or 4-up settings, on the other
> tabs select whatever applies (NOTE, that some settings do apply to
> some file types, like "scale to 100% of page size" only applies to
> images...)
> 10. print and be happy with KDEPrint ;-)
>
>
> Final note: KDEPrint is just a frontend to the underlying print
> subsystem. As such it works best with CUPS, which is very powerful
> (and KDEPrint really shines with it).
>
> KDEPrint's own functionality are the "Virtual Printers" such as "Print
> to File (PDF)". If you want to use these in a similar way as described
> above, you have to make sure that you have all the required pre-filters
> installed which you can access via "Properties" --> "Filters" tab (see
> the "Requirement: "exec:/...." comments there).
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt Pfeifle

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