qpdfview

select tray

Asked by Ingo Haase

I come from Evince (which has some serious problems) and therefore want to try using qpdfview 0.4.12 but I'm missing the tray selection in the printing dialogue (Konica Minolta Bizhub C220 PS, 4 trays, CUPS 1.7.5). Am I doing something wrong, or is it a feature?

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Best Adam Reichold (adamreichold) said : 		#1

Hello Ingo,

we are using Qt's default print dialog. We added various options ourselves in the past which would then later be added to the default print dialog, so I'd prefer to try to expand the upstream Qt dialog itself in future. Hence if some options are missing there, please try filing a wishlist bug report with the Qt project. (They rewrote the printing support in Qt version 5 recently and the new implementation is probably still missing some options.)

As a workaround, you can adjust the default tray via the CUPS settings (or even create several printers which differ only in the tray used) which should then be picked by qpdfview implicitly.

Best regards, Adam.

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Ingo Haase (haase) said : 		#2

Hello, thank you for your quick answer! I already tried your workaround and it works fine for me. I didn't know that tray selection was such an exotic feature. There are many PS options I have never even heard of, but tray selection is a "must", I think. I will try to get it to the wishlist.

Thanks.