On 08/11/10 16:00, Twayne wrote: > In news:[email protected], > Mike Scott <[email protected]> typed: >> Hmmm. Amazing how things come up together. While pondering >> on "book format" in another thread, I've been "supervising" >> a booklet my wife has been putting together. End game was >> we needed to print about 20 pages, double-sided, ready for >> binding. >> >> Goodness knows what happened. The right-side pages printed >> OK. Left side kept hanging - the best the system could do >> was a timeout message from the printer (a Samsung laser). >> >> There was no way I could get OOo to print the second sides >> straight to the printer. I eventually used PDFCreator (a >> print-to-disk driver), then printed them using Acrobat >> Reader, so we've finished this job. >> >> But I still have no clue what was going on. This was OOo >> 3.x under XP/SP2. The print queue showed "spooling", then >> "spooling/deleted" when I tried cancelling the job. A >> reboot finally cleared the q (but the problem reappeared >> when I retried); while OOo itself crashed horribly at some >> point in the proceedings. >> >> OOo? XP? XP fault badly handled by OOo? Who knows? :-{ But >> it's irritating when you're doing a "quick job" for someone >> else!!! > > I don't know what the problem is, but if you're actually doing business, you > should get XP up to SP3. > > re the non-print of the second side: Is that the odd or even pages? > Whichever it is, can you tell it to print all that one side, flip the paper > over and refeed, printing the other side? > I'm assuming you have a printer that prints on both sides automatcally? > It almost sounds like a driver problem than it does anything else so > perhaps a driver reinstall or update for the printer? I'm assuming you have > a printer that prints on both sides automatcally? > > More information would probably help here.
Sorry, I thought the info was implicit. (a) It's not business; my next upgrade path is SP2->ubuntu anyway :-) (b) it's a single-sided printer - which is why I was doing right side then left, so the paper could be fed back through manually. (c) As to whether the pages are 'odd' or 'even', that's a matter of definition, because the numbering restarts after the title and contents pages, and OOo kindly supplied a needed blank page. If anything, I suppose odd<=>right (which is where OOo forces P1 to be). OOo refers to them as 'left' and 'right'. I've never had this problem before, having done manually fed double sided many times. I suppose I really wanted to put the problem on record rather than look for answers - I don't want to lay whole forests to waste debugging a print problem :-) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
