GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340136
page layout preview ignores even/odd setup
Last modified: 2018-02-10 03:38:54 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 0) Open print dialogue on Page Setup page 1) Choose Ppages per sheet: 2 2) Choose Only print: Even sheets Actual result: Page layout preview shows: [1 2] Expected result: Page layout preview shows: [2 4]
The wording "Even sheets" is a hint that you are omitting sheets, not pages. Thus, you will get [3 4] [7 8] [11 12] ... What would be the purpose of printing [2 4][6 8] [10 12] ?
Hmm right it seems I misunderstood the purpose of this setting... and it seems to me that the combination of n-up and only-even/only-odd makes no sense at all: the purpose of even/odd is to print the paper on both sides manually. But if you do n-up you'll not need [1 2] [3 4] but [1 3], [4 2]...
I've printed needing [1 2] [3 4] many times. It really depends on how you are going to bind the thing. One is to bind them at the left, so you need [1 2] [3 4], another is to fold and bind the centers, then you need [1 4] [2 3], and that's what psbook(1) does for example.
I doubt that we want the full psbook featureset in the print dialog.
looks like i'm having the opposite problem here: I expected things to work as matthias pointed out, but i'm getting even-odd PAGES instead when printing multiple pages to a single physical sheet... doc of 4 pages i expected [1 2] [3 4] i got [1 3] when using the "print odd pages only" option looks like the ps transformation stack got kind of reversed (running gnome 2.14 on archlinux)
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