To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102544 Issue #|102544 Summary|reorders pages, making duplex printing a nightmare Component|gsl Version|OOo 2.4.1 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|Unix, X11 Status|NEW Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|PATCH Priority|P3 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|mba Reported by|rene
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Fri Jun 5 13:58:44 +0000 2009 ------- See http://bugs.debian.org/414555 and bugs.debian.org/531550: --- snip --- I wanted to print 6 pages on 3 sheets of paper. So I first printed 1,3,5 (using Pages: in the Print Dialog), and then I wanted to print 2,4,6. However I have a LaserPrinter where I need to print page 6 first and page 2 at last. So I typed 6,4,2. However, OpenOffice printed this as 2,4,6. This is completly stupid from a users point of view. --- snip --- --- snip --- Printing duplex on a printer without automatic duplex is a nightmare if one wants to print from writer. The most annoying and broken thing wrt to printing is that even if I select to print pages 5,3,1* (in that order), writer reorders them and prints them in 1,3,5 order making impossible to print large documents on both sides. Also, since manual duplexing is needed on many printers, this should be directly supported (print odd pages/print even pages) and should be possible even for a part of a document (e.g. duplex printing of pages 14 to 117 in a document of 200 pages). So, to consider this bug fixed, OOo-writer should at least NOT reorder the selected pages and should print them in the exact order they were given. To consider the duplexing issue fixed, proper odd/even + full or part of document printing support should be added. * You can imagine that I discovered this reordering bug while trying to pair the even pages of a document with the already printed odd pages and ended up having page 2 on the back of 17, 4 on the back of 15, and so on, although I listed the pages in reverse order exactly to counter this outcome (since the stack of pages was with the lower numbered pages at the bottom after the first side printing). --- snip --- mba, tl: will this work with the new print dialog (http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_print_ui)? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
