GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 308189
Print odd/even
Last modified: 2006-12-19 11:51:38 UTC
Hi! Adobe Acrobat Reader has one good feature in its' print dialog, and that is the ability to only print the odd or even pages in a selected interval. This allows for people with single-sided printers to take the printed papers out, and put them back in with the other side up, thus saving half of tha paper needed for the print! GNOME saves trees! (<-- It'd be great to have that feature ;-))
I hate "'I second this' comments" but ... I second this :-) I installed a new cups printer using the default setting "lpoptions -o page-set=odd". This works fine using lp/lpr however, using the gnome print dialog *all* pages are being printed, thus rendering the default settings useless. I suspect that the gnome print dialog overrides my default page-set printer option. It would be great to: 1)offer an odd/even pages only checkbox in the print dialog (preferred) 2)honor the page-set=odd[even] default settings for a printer 3)show cups printer instances in the gnome printer selection
I'm willing to put a $50 bounty on this feature (via paypal, amazon.com or cash) if it makes it into Gnome mainline CVS. If you want to claim the bounty mail me (Sebastian@SSpaeth.de)
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80629 ***
Hmm... since this bug is in gnome-print, and the other one in galeon, which is almost unmaintained by now, shouldn't then that bug be a duplicate of this? Having a galeon bug about print requests seems to me like a good way to make the bug forgotten, rather than a correctly filed gnome-print bug.
Reopening. Galeon doesn't even use gnome-print.
Then we should reassign it back to galeon
No, we shouldn't. Christian ment that galeon doesn't use gnome-print, but this is a feature request for gnome print, not galeon.
Then we should not re-open a dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80629 ***
I'm sorry, but how is this a duplicate of bug 90629? That one is about an app that uses XUL for printing, this is for gnome-print, which is the common print interface for all (almost) GNOME apps. If you really feel that chronological order is of such great importance, then fine, but move that bug to gnome-print then. Which would also be wrong, cause as Christian pointed out, galeon doesn't use gnome-print. This is a feature request for gnome-print, not galeon. Both are valid requests and should according to me have their own bugs. In any way - there should be a bug in gnome-print with this feature request, how you want to do it is your choice.
Oh bother. It would help if I had read that 80629 was a galeon bug. You are right I am wrong.
*** Bug 338949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I cloned this as a new feature request for gtk+ printing. Closing on this side.