On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:17 +0100, David Prieto wrote: > I would like to raise attention on the way gnome apps are printing my > documents. However, I'm not sure what package I should file a bug > against or even if this is faulty or intended behaviour, so let me try > to explain it here: > > I have this big, fat document like 300 pages long which I need to print. > Now I've never liked to waste paper, so I set evince to print 2 pages > for each paper sheet, and only odd pages. My plan was printing even > pages on the other side of the sheets. > > This is how I expected the pages to be printed: > > -1,2 > -5,6 > -9,10 > -13,14 > > Then I'd turn the pages and print the remaining pages on the other side: > > -1,2,3,4 > -5,6,7,8 > -9,10,11,12 > -13,14,15,16 > > Did I make myself clear so far? Well, the actual result of printing only > odd pages was this: > > -1,3 > -5,7 > -9,11 > -13,15 > > So, had I printed even pages as well, these are the pages each actual > sheet would have shown: > > -1,3,2,4 > -5,7,6,8 > -9,11,11,12 > -13,15,14,16 > > Which is obviously wrong and makes the final printed document difficult > as hell to read. So my proposal is, when setting printing options like > even/odd or inverse order, could gnome base the final result on the > actual sheets instead of the document pages?
I've ran into this too some time ago and I agree, it's very confusing. To make the matter worse, the wording in the printing dialog leads the user to believe that everything will be printed as we expect: In the "only print" dropdown, it uses the word "sheets", while it clearly seems to apply to document pages. -- Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv) http://www.savanne.be _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
