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Print problem - Can't print correctly from page A to B

I have an 86 page pdf document. I want to print from page 61 to 86 (1) odds pages only, then (2) even pages only.
I'm on kde plasma + i3wm. I have cups, and okular as pdf reader.
When I try (1) the printer starts from page 1 instead of 61. I tried printing on a file, and I have the same issue.
What could be the problem?
Kernel5.12.5-artix1-1
InitOpenrc
DE\WMPlasma 5.21.5 \ i3
CPUIntel i7-4710MQ (8 core) @ 3.500GHz
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Re: Print problem - Can't print correctly from page A to B

Reply #1 –
I don't really have a solution for your problem with Okular (in fact these options are grayed out when I choose print to file). I can suggest you, however, using a PDF command line processor like pdftk:

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pdftk in.pdf cat 61-86odd output out.pdf

Re: Print problem - Can't print correctly from page A to B

Reply #2 –
I don't often print selected pages but I've done so occasionally in the past. I've printed from qpdfview among other things which should interface with KDE well as it's a QT app. Also there can be 2 different places in the print dialog to set this sort of thing, perhaps you could look at that too. There is sort of a basic view then some print settings button that takes you to some different options. Also I'm not sure if it's true now but in the past if you went into print settings and set say landscape it would stay like that until you set it to portrait then actually printed a page as a portrait, otherwise it would still be on landscape next time you went to print something. That was using XFCE and later Mate though.
Perhaps that might give you some general ideas, but I haven't encountered this exact issue myself.