Comment 7 for bug 284730

This follows up my commentary of 2008-12-29. There has obviously been work on the overall issue of KDE printing but the basic problem of truncated text remains unresolved. New problems appear to have been introduced.

I am currently running Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope beta, fully updated twice a day. KDE is thus at version 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu3 and Qt at 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.

When one prints a document from kate on my ancient HP LaserJet 4L without changing the en-CA defaults, the header is printed but a couple of lines of text and the footer are cut off the bottom. The printed area is 10.5" long by 7.6" wide. This disregards the default margins of T=0.5", L=0.25", R=0.25", B=0.5". Parenthetically, it also demonstrates that HP's ~25-year old published maximum imageable area of 10" height is not rigidly enforced.

As soon as one alters the margins under Print Properties in the application print dialogue --- at least by increasing the margins --- the document is formatted in accordance with the changed margins, and the header and footer are now both printed. However, one line of text at the bottom of each page continues to be truncated.

I tried altering the printer defaults under |System Settings |Advanced |System |Printer Configuration |Local Printer |HP LaserJet 4L| Job Options. I was careful to "apply" (i.e. to save) the changes and returned to kate. The "defaults" which kate brought up were the distribution defaults, not the ones I had just adjusted in System Settings. What was even more interesting is that when I returned to System Settings, the recently changed settings appeared on the "page", but the "Apply" button was once again highlighted and the customary "unsaved changes" warning appeared if I tried to navigate away from the page. It would appear that opening the Printer Properties box in kate somehow triggers a "changed settings" flag in the configuration file.