Bug 579087

Summary:	Okular is extremely slow when printing a pdf
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Joel Schaerer <joelthelion>
Component:	KDE4 Applications	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ctrippe, joelthelion
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
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Description Joel Schaerer 2010-02-11 13:46:09 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.2 Firefox/3.6

Okular is extremely slow when printing: First, it for about a minute when I select "print" from the file menu, than it hangs again when I actually print the document (about one minute again).

This happens with every pdf. I print on a network hp laserjet printer. Evince doesn't have the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open pdf
2. select print from the file menu
3. okular hangs for about a minute

Comment 1 Christian Trippe 2010-02-11 14:51:41 UTC

Do you have another (network) printer configured which is not reachable, when you try to print?

Is it also so low when you try to print from another KDE4 application?

Comment 2 Joel Schaerer 2010-02-11 15:01:19 UTC

>Is it also so low when you try to print from another KDE4 application?

Yes. I tried with KWrite and it has the same problem

>Do you have another (network) printer configured which is not reachable, when
you try to print?

Very possibly. I am located in a hospital with a reasonably-sized windows network, and CUPS sees a total of 43 printers (which I haven't done anything to configure, except for the one printer I happen to use).

Comment 3 Christian Trippe 2010-02-11 15:13:12 UTC

KDE4 is known to have problems if you have configured a local print queue, where the printer is not reachable. The application can hang for several minutes. This is fixed with Qt 4.6.1.

I asked if a backport for openSUSE 11.2 is possible, see http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551103

My bet would be that because of this bug there might also be a large delay if many printers in a network are available.

If you agree feel free to mark this bug as duplicate of the above mentioned one.

Comment 4 Joel Schaerer 2010-02-11 15:31:50 UTC

Thanks for the quick answers! I agree a backport would be nice, since this is an annoying issue and should affect quite a few people.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 551103 ***