No, actually I am using Windows 98. I am a musician with myh own studio at
home, and my idea is to make things a bit easier for me. The machine I
work with can save 100 different "setups" of the mixer and built in
effects. They are saved as "scenes". You can play back 24 tracks
simultaneously, and each of them contains 16 so called "v-tracks" which
are useful for additional takes and things like that. Maybe you recorded a
song and now you want to make a different version of it. Maybe remove the
vocals and add another instrument to make it an instrumental, or maybe you
just have new fresh ideas that you hadn't when you recorded the song
earlier... Well, now I wanted to create a template project from which I
can start a new project, without having to tape track names, scene names
etc. So I opened a new document in OOo Calc to make some different sheets
containing information about this template: All the 384 track names, about
40-50 scenes with descriptions and names, so I can easily see where to
find what a little bit easier than searching in my recording machine,
suggestions about what microphones and instruments to connect to which
input, so that I can use the pre defined scenes, tracknames and things
like that.
So why double sided? Well, ordinary A4 papers always get distroyed,
covered with stuff like coffe (not in my case since I don't drink stuff
like that), or they just disappear or hide among other papers etc, so I
decided to use my laminator. Then I could just have them easily reachable
under the machine or somewhere else near the place where I work with the
whole thing. Much easier to handle. And I don't want a lot of them, 6 were
definitely too many I thought, so I found that double sided was the way to
go, and I also printed on a litte thicker paper (100 g/m², instead of the
more usual 80 g/m²). So now I have it all safe from fluids and from get
folded etc. Works great. If they get dirty or greasy I can just clean them
with water and some kind of detergent. And I only have three of them, not
six.
So all I have to do now, is to make that project template so it will
follow the "rules" I already set up with OOo calc, way out of topic on
this mailing list...
Anyway, I solved my problem by just sorting the papers manually before
printing the back sides, but I just thought that it would be convenient
if, when I enter things like "1-2,4,5,3,6" in the print dialog, the pages
are printed in the order I typed, without being sorted to "1-6". Besides,
it couldn't be too hard to change. Just skip the sorting...
Johnny
Den 2006-02-09 15:07:00 skrev Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I'm not too swift with page numbering, but are you trying to print a
brochure? Writer supports that, but I don't know how you would do that
in calc. Trying to embed the sheet in a writer document might be
possible, but it's a pretty convoluted solution.
I don't know what OS you are using, but if it's Linux, the print
"command" lp has options for page ranges, so a script could easily be
written to do what you want.
Joe
Johnny Andersson wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I found that one too now, when looking for
it, but in this particular case it wouldn't help me much, but I guess
it will be useful in the future, now that I know about it...
In my particular case I wanted page 6 to be the back side of page 1 so
I would still have to sort the printed pages manually and put it back
in the printer. But I guess that now, when I know this, I will have
that in mind when starting to create anything from the beginning...
Johnny
Den 2006-02-07 19:34:10 skrev Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I haven't booted Windoze lately, but my printer dialog for my HP
Deskjet contains a "Features" page which includes the option "Book"
(for portrait) and "Tablet" for landscape double sided printing in
software. (I have to shuffle the pages with the 180 turn as well.)
Joe
Johnny Andersson wrote:
Hi!
I made a few simple spreadsheets with calc, all in the same file on
different tabs, if you understand what I mean. I defined some print
areas ("utskriftsområden" in Swedish, I don't know what you call them
in English...) and I previewed the whole thing. I realized that my
work would be printed on 6 pages and I realized that if I could print
them in a different order, I could have 3 double sided papers
printed. In this case I would like the page order to be 1,2,4,5,3,6.
If I insert only three papers (A4) and when they all are printed I
just turn them 180° and reinsert them in my printer, I will have page
1 and 6 on one paper, the next will be page 2 and 3 and the last one
page 4 and 5.
So I selected the option to print only specified pages, and in the
input field I typed 1-2,4,5,3,6. Then I clicked the Print button and
my printer started to print. Now I realized that the actual order of
the pages is 1-6. All of the 6 pages was printed but they were also
sorted! Why?
Maybe this is a Windows 98 issue rather than an OOo issue, but I
don't think so since the print dialog looks a lot different than it
does when I print from other applications. Adobe reader has their own
print dialog where you can select reverse print order and a lot more
so I thought that this dialog was the OOo one and maybe I just could
do the same thing by just typing the order I want, like in the
example above. Of course I could solve my problem very easily by just
print twice. First time pages 1,2 and 4, then turn the papers 180°,
then print page 5 and after that print the pages 3 and 5.
But wouldn't it be nice if the thing I tried above was possible?
Maybe I should file this as a wish for a future feature? Or maybe
this already works in 2.0? I still use 1.1.5, due to speed issues
(old PC of mine).
--Johnny
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