On 11/8/2010 10:12 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
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 :-)
I had a somewhat similar problem with inability to print (in my case, it was a silent failure and
didn't hang the spooler, though). I eventually traced it to the use of a particular font; when I
replaced that, it worked fine. It sounds as though you may also have seen the other issue I had --
OOo's print to PDF didn't honor the "brochure" setting in Tools > Options, and I also had to use
PDFCreator.
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