GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 311348
Print current page
Last modified: 2006-11-09 14:28:13 UTC
I would like to request two features: a) print the current visible page. Sometimes I want to print one page out of a big document and then need to fiddle around with the GNOME printerUI dialog to select the range of the pages that I want to print. It's often quite irritating and time consuming. b) print in reverse order. Specially interesting if you want to print a longer document or a job application. So the first visible page is the last one that gets printed (so it shows up ontop of the whole printout). That saves a lot of time to sorting the entire document afterwards e.g. reversing the entire document manually. This feature will allow me to grab the ready printed document, put it in a folder and then sent it to whatever place instantly.
These may depend on libgnomeprintui changes, I'm not sure
Dunno if these are libgnomeprint/ui changes, but then I am using what will become GNOME 2.12 soon :). But really I would be happy if you could support this layout thingy as you can see in the attachment, so people would be able to print 2 pages on 1 sheet, 4 pages on one sheet and so on. Works perfectly with Gedit and stuff like that but doesn't with Evince.
Created attachment 50130 [details] Illustration This would be an urgent request too. Better support with libgnomeprint/ui.
Can I see any progress in this direction ? It's quite frustrating to see Evince not obeying these rules. Saying that this is a libgnomeprintui change isn't valid anymore since they exists for GNOME 2.12 which Evince became part of.
I'm sorry, but I don't think anyone is working on this currently. We'd like to get printing working nicely, but we are lacking enough developers right now.
Ali, let's split this requests. This bug will be about printing current page. I think it's possible with modification of gnomeprintui dialog (just adding new radio like this: 1. All pages 2. Page range 3. Current page About printing in reverse order we have bug 320919, let discuss request there. I think it would be easy fix this feature will be implemented through handling page range in reverse order. Comment in bug 320919, is such solution acceptable for you or not.
> Ali, let's split this requests. No problems, please do so.
*** Bug 163252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is already fixed with GTK+ printing system.