Comment 3 for bug 340958

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