[Bug 36752] doesn't print properly pdfs in "2 per page" or "4 per page" mode

[Adriano]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36752

Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Using evince, the print dialog offers the option to print 2 or 4
document pages per paper page. However, the result is either one page
per page, as if nothing had been selected, or misplaced text if I turn
the page from vertical layout to horizontal.

Using xpp, I can print 4 in 1, but the order of the pages is wrong: instead of
1 3
2 4
or
1 2
3 4
it prints 
2 1
4 3
or
3 1
4 2

My printer is a Samsung ML-1710.
I had reported this bug in mandriva, and it turned out to be a combination of cups and evince bugs. The cups bug was solved, eventually, but the evince bug wasn't. You can see the bugreport at http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21388. I'm filing this under cupsys too.