#28 closed enhancement (worksforme)
Make it possible to print doublesided
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Eugene Romanenko | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | Feedback Pending |
| Component: | Lucide Core | Version: | 1.3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Comment from a beta-tester:
Often when I get a pdf, depending on the subject, I prefer to print it. Back problems make online study a painful experience. What really bugs me is the lack of an option to print it on both sides of the paper. With a regular text document, I can do this with Wordperfect... Even works on dot matrix printer, which I prefer. To me, that feature would be a real Adobe buster.
regards, Malcolm
Change History (6)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Yes that's indeed not a problem of the application but of the printer driver. So rather an issue for Win32PRN or porting CUPS :-)
As soon as printer support is working this will work with any printer that supports duplex printing but for sure that is a must. I close the bug because of this.
comment:3 by , 15 years ago
| Milestone: | RC → 1.4 |
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| Priority: | minor → major |
| Resolution: | invalid |
| Status: | closed → reopened |
| Version: | → 1.3 |
eCUPS prints duplex fine here on my Lexmark c544dn (postscript printer) from OpenOffice.org. However, Lucide prints single sided irrespective of the 'duplex' setting for the printer.
Paul Smedley maintains that there is some invalid postscript send by lucide (some strange headers, so that CUPS cannot add the duplex request). Can that be resolved?
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Milestone: | 1.4 → Feedback Pending |
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afaik lucide doesn't add anything special to the header. could you eventually debug the output and see which part of the header is wrong? did you try latest beta? eventually something is fixed as we updated poppler backend
comment:5 by , 14 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
Just tested this and setting the printjob to doublesided works fine (at least with Lucide 1.3.3 beta) so afaic we can close this ticket.
This is on a networked printer with the Gutenprint driver.
comment:6 by , 14 years ago
Doesn't work here. I selected 2 pages for printing in lucide 1.3.3 beta (2011-03-10), select double sided printing in printer properties and get 2 single-sided pages. However, I did not upgrade to the very latest eCUPS yet. Need to do this and try again.
Thinking a bit more about it, this is possible already with any application, if the printer settings are set correctly (and the printer supports it) So this may be no biggie after all, just use the eCS subsystem to handle the printing...