Re: printing options not totally efficient

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:17 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
> I would like to raise attention on the way gnome apps are printing my
> documents. However, I'm not sure what package I should file a bug
> against or even if this is faulty or intended behaviour, so let me try
> to explain it here:
> 
> I have this big, fat document like 300 pages long which I need to print.
> Now I've never liked to waste paper, so I set evince to print 2 pages
> for each paper sheet, and only odd pages. My plan was printing even
> pages on the other side of the sheets.
> 
> This is how I expected the pages to be printed:
> 
> -1,2
> -5,6
> -9,10
> -13,14
> 
> Then I'd turn the pages and print the remaining pages on the other side:
> 
> -1,2,3,4
> -5,6,7,8
> -9,10,11,12
> -13,14,15,16
> 
> Did I make myself clear so far? Well, the actual result of printing only
> odd pages was this:
> 
> -1,3
> -5,7
> -9,11
> -13,15
> 
> So, had I printed even pages as well, these are the pages each actual
> sheet would have shown:
> 
> -1,3,2,4
> -5,7,6,8
> -9,11,11,12
> -13,15,14,16
> 
> Which is obviously wrong and makes the final printed document difficult
> as hell to read. So my proposal is, when setting printing options like
> even/odd or inverse order, could gnome base the final result on the
> actual sheets instead of the document pages?

I've ran into this too some time ago and I agree, it's very confusing.
To make the matter worse, the wording in the printing dialog leads the
user to believe that everything will be printed as we expect: In the
"only print" dropdown, it uses the word "sheets", while it clearly seems
to apply to document pages.


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Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
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