kdeprint POSTER option does not work

Bug #231453 reported by Ralf Folkerts
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qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdeprint

The poster Option from kdeprint does not work / shows error.

Just wanted to print a poster from KDE the first time (pls. note: I use a german KDE-Localization; I hope I translate the Items correctly)

-Opened a Picture in Gwenview
- Selected File/Print
- Selected Properties for the Printer
- Selected the Poster-Tab
- Checked the "print Poster" Checkbox
- An error is being displayed in the Dialog:
"
poster: invalid option -- F
Usage: poster infile

options are:
-v: be verbose
-f: ask manual feed on plotting / printing device
-i: specify input image
"

The same error (with some more options being displayed) is being shown in System Settings / Printer / Profile / Poster once the "print Poster" checkbox is checked.

I read that kdeprint needs a KDE-modified Version of poster, so checked which package the program belongs to:

ralf@flounder:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/poster
poster: /usr/bin/poster

As that "poster" didn't look like KDE-modified I wanted to remove in adept and replace with the KDE-Version; however, once I selected to deinstall poster Adept showed that I also wanted to delete kdeprint.

This happened in Kubuntu 8.04.
ralf@flounder:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

ralf@flounder:~$ dpkg -l kdeprint\* poster\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Beschreibung
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii kdeprint 4:3.5.9-0ubunt print system for KDE
ii poster 1:19990428-8 Create large posters out of PostScript pages

Would be great if this could be fixed (I'm not sure; from what I found the "standard" Poster should be replaced by either the KDE-modified Version or by a more recent "standard" Poster).

Cheers!
_ralf_

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Ralf Folkerts (ralf-folkerts) wrote :

Attached a Screenshot from the "Poster"-Dialog .

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Zeppe (giuseppe-passino) wrote :

I'd like to report the same problem in my system (Ubuntu 8.04).

kdeprint: 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2
poster: 1:19990428-8

Is there any workaround for this?

Thanks!

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lukasfischer (lukasfischer) wrote :

I also wanted to print a poster today, same problem. any fix yet?

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lukasfischer (lukasfischer) wrote :

quick, dirty fix: install kde-specific version from source: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/printing/poster-20050907.tar.bz2

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

As it stands with KDE4, Qt4 needs poster support for this to work. Luckily I believe somebody is working on this for future Qt releases.

affects: kdebase (Ubuntu) → qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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