Opened 19 years ago

Closed 10 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 10 years ago.
Reverse_printing_option.png (5.4 KB ) - added by Lewis Rosenthal 10 years ago.
Different system print dialog, showing no overlap
lucide print dialog.png (3.9 KB ) - added by Gregg Young 10 years ago.

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Change History (19)

comment:1 by ktk, 18 years ago

Milestone: RC2.0 and further
Version: 1.0

comment:2 by Silvan Scherrer, 16 years ago

Milestone: 2.0 and further1.4

comment:3 by Lewis Rosenthal, 10 years ago

Owner: Eugene Romanenko removed

comment:4 by Lewis Rosenthal, 10 years ago

Milestone: 1.41.4.0

Milestone renamed

comment:5 by Gregg Young, 10 years ago

Owner: set to Gregg Young
Status: newassigned

comment:6 by Lewis Rosenthal, 10 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, 10 years ago

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

comment:8 by Gregg Young, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

CS[523]

comment:9 by Lewis Rosenthal, 10 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, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

CS[525]

comment:11 by rbri, 10 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 10 years ago by rbri (previous) (diff)

by rbri, 10 years ago

Attachment: lucide.jpg added

comment:12 by Lewis Rosenthal, 10 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, 10 years ago

Attachment: Reverse_printing_option.png added

Different system print dialog, showing no overlap

comment:13 by Gregg Young, 10 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, 10 years ago

Attachment: lucide print dialog.png added

comment:14 by Gregg Young, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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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