Opened 17 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#120 closed enhancement (fixed)

Reverse-order printing

Reported by: guest Owned by: Gregg Young
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.4.0
Component: Lucide Core Version:
Keywords: reverse-order printing Cc:

Description

Without a duplex printer, a simple way to print double-sided documents is to print the even pages in the reverse order (for example 10 8 6 4 2) then put them back in the printer and print the odd pages in the normal order (for example 1 3 5 7 9). Without reverse order printing, in this example, page 2 will be on the bottom of the printed pages, page 1 will be printed on the back of page 10, etc.

GSView has this possibility of reverse-order printing, it would be very nice if Lucide had it too.

Attachments (3)

lucide.jpg (8.6 KB ) - added by rbri 8 years ago.
Reverse_printing_option.png (5.4 KB ) - added by Lewis Rosenthal 8 years ago.
Different system print dialog, showing no overlap
lucide print dialog.png (3.9 KB ) - added by Gregg Young 8 years ago.

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Change History (19)

comment:1 by ktk, 16 years ago

Milestone: RC2.0 and further
Version: 1.0

comment:2 by Silvan Scherrer, 15 years ago

Milestone: 2.0 and further1.4

comment:3 by Lewis Rosenthal, 9 years ago

Owner: Eugene Romanenko removed

comment:4 by Lewis Rosenthal, 9 years ago

Milestone: 1.41.4.0

Milestone renamed

comment:5 by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

Owner: set to Gregg Young
Status: newassigned

comment:6 by Lewis Rosenthal, 8 years ago

A couple minor nits from 7-30-16 build:

  1. Missing mnemonic for "Reverse"
  2. Reverse should be unavailable when printing current page or when a single page is selected in the range.

Other than those (and the need for translations), this is great. Thanks, Gregg.

comment:7 by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

Mnemonic was present in source. I just didn't copy the .lng files over.

comment:8 by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

CS[523]

comment:9 by Lewis Rosenthal, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

Mnemonic is there, but selecting Alt-R only highlights the option; it does not check the box.

Confirmed that Reverse is greyed out for:

  1. a single page PDF
  2. a multi-page PDF with Current page selected to print
  3. a multi-page PDF with a page range of the same page selected to print

comment:10 by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

CS[525]

comment:11 by rbri, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

There is a problem with the layout, the new checkbox for reverse printing overlays the 'Number of Copies' label (see attachment)

Last edited 8 years ago by rbri (previous) (diff)

by rbri, 8 years ago

Attachment: lucide.jpg added

comment:12 by Lewis Rosenthal, 8 years ago

This is interesting, Ronald. My print dialog is somewhat different (fonts, maybe?), so I have not seen it (note my screenshot). Obviously, it's something to be addressed.

Thanks for reopening!

by Lewis Rosenthal, 8 years ago

Attachment: Reverse_printing_option.png added

Different system print dialog, showing no overlap

comment:13 by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

I see what Lewis sees. I can move the Reverse checkbox to the next line down directly above From:or just make it shorter where it is (problem with that is I don't know how long the longest translation string for Reverse will be) The default font is 9.WarpSans. I tested moving it down a line using a string 2 characters longer than the longest current page translation string for current page and it was not truncated and Reverse is visible and works.

by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

Attachment: lucide print dialog.png added

comment:14 by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

The difference appears to be different dialog enhancement utilities. I just checked the math on this and Reverse ended in column 170 with Number of copies starting at 178 so there should be no overlap. Maybe I don't understand something here or maybe it is a broken dialog enhancement utility.

comment:15 by Lewis Rosenthal, 8 years ago

That looks fine to me, and should give us some greater flexibility, as you've noted, Gregg.

I wish we could replicate Ronald's view, though, as an issue like this might crop up somewhere else.

comment:16 by Gregg Young, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

Ronald please reopen if my changes in RC 2a didn't fix the dialog. CS [542]

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