I'd bet your printer dialog has an option something like "Print Selected
Pages". In it, you should be able to enter ranges of pages as comma
separated lists with the pages in any order. I'm pretty sure my HP
Deskjet driver on 98se will do that. YMMV.
BTW, I just got a bass and one of these days I'd like to learn enough
music theory, etc. to do a little bit of what you're doing.
Joe
Johnny Andersson wrote:
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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