Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 41118
printing of even and odd pages (add odd/even to left/right-pages string in UI)
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Please provide an option to print even and odd pages. This is good for dual- sided printing when not having a duplex unit.
It's already there. Use the button "Options..." in the print-dialog. You can check or uncheck "Left pages" and "Right pages".
Thanks, that sounds good! But does that work when I have disabled left and right side division? If so, I would suggest renaming this feature or adding the even and odd words, because it may cause confusion to users.
Up to now OOo treats all writer-documents as having left pages and right pages. And in "left to right" languages all odd pages are left and all even pages are right. You cannot disable this. You can only define, that both use the same layout.
looks more like an RFE for writer
MRU->HI: please evaluate, wether this is "RFE", "Defect" or ...
HI: Yes it's an RFE. This kind of feature will support from some HP deskjet printer driver for example, which are not able to print duplex.
Say what? What should this "RFE" add to OOo? The option to print odd/even pages septerately already exists. So please specify what should be changed or close this issue worksforme.
It should make clear that left/right means even/odd, just adding a little text in brackets would be sufficient I guess.
RFE: Request for Enhancement. HI->UFI: Please add description into the online help.
added index entries "even/odd" to text\shared\optionen\01040400.xhp Now --> enhancement to change the UI
no reason for needmoreinfo anymore.
*** Issue 54517 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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*** Issue 58625 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Note that issue 58625 and (I think also) issue 54517 additionally request that the option be moved to the main print dialog, which makes sense to me as well. Other related issues are issue 23858 (request for odd/even for graphic apps) and issue 3910. Also, I believe the order of the options is important to avoid confusion: to me it makes sense for the "odd" option to be first, since the first page is odd. I checked these other applications: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, and kprinter, and all use odd/even nomenclature without reference to left/right, and all list the odd option first.
Sooo what about some little nice graphic showing us what this left/right thing is? is nº 1 page on the left or the right? What about odd/even options and then a reverse option or something like that?
To add a little perspective here - I am a new OOo user coming across from Word. I use the Odd/Even Word print option all the time to save paper. I then had to do this with OOo the other day and hit a wall. I couldn't find the option, the help wasn't any help at all and as time was pressing, I ended up using Word after all. I then had to do quite a bit of searching on online forums before I found the left/right option. Seriously guys - add this to the standard Print range dialog. In these times where people are looking more and more to save paper, this should be an easy to find, easy to use feature, and at the moment it isn't.
This is one of those "little" details that makes me throw up my hands in the air and drag myself screaming back to Word, at least for a while I cool off. I found it educational to learn here that "all odd pages are left and all even pages are right," but I guess I am used (and respond quicker) to dialogs with the Odd/Even descriptor. I don't like it but I *might* be able to live with that... but not with the command BURIED under "Options," especially when I use it all the time. The truth is that many of us average users (I'm no tech) *expect* to find it in the same place as other popular apps we use (from Adobe, Micromedia, Microsoft... heck, even Textpad has it), and that means an Odd/Even choice up front in the *main* print dialog.
Just a small quibble: odd pages are always on the right, not the left. The pages options should be on the main dialogue, as should "Create single print jobs (collate)" and "Print automatically inserted blank pages." The term "Brochure" seems odd to me. The first thing I imagine it to mean is a trifold brochure. Unless that is the term used for booklet printing in Word, I think "Booklet" is preferable. All of the other options belong on other tabs of a tabbed dialogue. One tab for content and Notes, and one for Layout (tiled and n-up printing).
I think will be better to disable these options when I set to print one page for every sheet becase in this case if I'll set no print left/right pages the printer will print anything. (Sorry for my english)
@bennyatc, you cannot disable something that does not exist yet. So it is better to leave such polishing when the feature will be implemented (if it will be).
I also came to submit a bug report (feature request) for this issue. I think a lot of people must miss this because it's not at all obvious.