> --- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David Nay wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I just printed out multiple copies of a
> > multi-paged
> > > Abiword document. When I printed, I checked the
> > > 'collate' option in the print dialog. This gave
> > me
> > > the following page sequence:
> > >
> > > 11112222333344445555
> > >
> > > I was expecting:
> > >
> > > 12345123451234512345
> > >
> > > Am I thinking backwards? I believe that collated
> > > should group the print out according to my second
> > > example.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> > Your expectation is what I think of collating too.
...
> Hmmmm....one Lemming jumps off a cliff...
>
> Is it really necessary to follow what MS Word does?
> Just because they do it, does not make it the right
> way.
I think MS Word is right - isn't collating meant to collate all the copies of the
same page together? (I thought it was originally designed back in the days when
generating a page bitmap to send to the printer took a /long/ time, so switching
'collate' on would speed things up for multiple copies, because each page was
generated once then printed multiple times, instead of being generated multiple
times, once for each copy.)
Jamie
