[Bug 231453] [NEW] kdeprint POSTER option does not work

[Ralf Folkerts]

Public bug reported:

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 at 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 at flounder:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 8.04
Release:        8.04

ralf at 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_

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kdeprint POSTER option does not work
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