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Okular duplicates print scaling property setting



I'm running Debian/Trixie on my workstation and print server. Both are AMD64 machines.

While I'm glad to see that Okular has restored the ability to set the print scaling, I was having an awful time getting things to print properly until I noticed that it actually has 2 places where you need to set it. Otherwise, you get the default "shrink to fit / automatic" setting.

If you try to print something from Okular (e.g. a PDF that is already set to the correct paper size), you need to select the printer you want then got to the Properties | Advanced | Print Scaling and change the setting from the default "Automatic" to "None".

But you're not done yet. Next you need to go to Options | Print Options | Scale Mode and change it from "Fit to printable area" to "Fit to full page". Otherwise your document will still not print properly.

I gather the first setting is common to the KDE print dialogue while the latter is something that Okular has added to make up for the previous lack of a way to turn off print scaling. However, now that KDE seems to have recognized that "fit to print" is not something that everyone always wants, Okular should adjust its dialogues to use the KDE print-scaling selection. As it stands, it's just another impediment to printing formatted documents.


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