On 06/26/2009 01:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> 1) It is odd that I can change N-up in the printer config dialog, but
>>> not in the CUPS web interface, or even in the print dialogue!
>>>
>>> 2) I still think that OOo should have N-up printing baked right in
>>> from the start. That would be consistent with an application who's
>>> primary design goal is to create print documents (in the case of
>>> Writer).
>>
>> It is odd isn't it? Particularly when both Firefox and SeaMonkey do
>> this. Give it a try... open up the print dialog in FF or SM and select
>> your PDF printer; notice that you get all of the pdf printer dialogs,
>> including the one 'Page Setup' dialog where you can change the N-up
>> (Pages-per-side).
>>
> 
> I suspected that was implemented directly in Firefox, as the dialogue
> is different than other GTK apps that I use.
> 

Yes. But my point being is that a similar dialog should/could be
available for OOo as well. What you get in OOo now is basically the same
as you get in the cups localhost:631 interface.

Till Kamppeter, leader of the OpenPrinting work group at the Linux
Foundation raised this issue last year:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=94184
[Support for the Common Printing Dialog]
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=94173
[Let OpenOffice.org send the data in PDF format to the printing system]




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