Opened 18 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#120 closed enhancement (fixed)
Reverse-order printing
| Reported by: | guest | Owned by: | Gregg Young |
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| 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)
Change History (19)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
| Milestone: | RC → 2.0 and further |
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| Version: | 1.0 |
comment:2 by , 15 years ago
| Milestone: | 2.0 and further → 1.4 |
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comment:3 by , 9 years ago
| Owner: | removed |
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comment:4 by , 9 years ago
| Milestone: | 1.4 → 1.4.0 |
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comment:5 by , 8 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:6 by , 8 years ago
A couple minor nits from 7-30-16 build:
- Missing mnemonic for "Reverse"
- 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:9 by , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | fixed |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
Mnemonic is there, but selecting Alt-R only highlights the option; it does not check the box.
Confirmed that Reverse is greyed out for:
- a single page PDF
- a multi-page PDF with Current page selected to print
- a multi-page PDF with a page range of the same page selected to print
comment:11 by , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | fixed |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
There is a problem with the layout, the new checkbox for reverse printing overlays the 'Number of Copies' label (see attachment)
by , 8 years ago
| Attachment: | lucide.jpg added |
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comment:12 by , 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 , 8 years ago
| Attachment: | Reverse_printing_option.png added |
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Different system print dialog, showing no overlap
comment:13 by , 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 , 8 years ago
| Attachment: | lucide print dialog.png added |
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comment:14 by , 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 , 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 , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
Ronald please reopen if my changes in RC 2a didn't fix the dialog. CS [542]
Milestone renamed