Re: printing options not totally efficient

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:06 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:17 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
> > 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.

Thats because that was the intended behaviour. However, maybe we're
sending the wrong cups commands for this ("page-set" is "even" or "odd",
and "number-up" for the more pages per sheet).

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