revPrintField seems to be broken still

[Peter Alcibiades]

Is this just me?  Or does anyone else find that revPrintField fails to work as 
it should?

The way it works for me both in Debian and Mandriva is that the page prints at 
the same scale and truncates the field, regardless of printer settings.  In 
Debian, because the printer is not seen by Rev, I have to verify this with 
print to file.  In Mandriva, the printer is seen, and print Card now works 
perfectly with the released version of 2.9, but revPrintField does not.

I have overcome this by writing a little awk script.  First we export the 
field to a tabbed text file, then we run a shell script which calls awk and 
does printf, then we pipe the result to kprinter.  You have to make sure you 
have the right filter installed for the conversion.   

It is truly crazy to have to do this, but it does work.  But is it just me, or 
should I be filing another bug?

It is also baffling that in Debian, Rev print card brings up a quite different 
print dialogue than any other application installed.  How can this be 
possible?  Every other application bar none, and this is quite a richly 
populated installation, brings up the standard dialog, the printer is 
visible, and it 'just works'.  In Rev, and only in Rev, a slightly different 
dialog appears in which there is no printer.

Surely Rev should be as robust as say Gedit, Kate and Geany in terms of 
finding the printer?

To answer Sarah's question:  what did you expect from being a Beta tester?  I 
expected to get printing working, properly, on all systems.  I did get it 
improved.  But not enough!

Peter