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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 14 14:41:51 +0000
2007 -------
Regarding PDF- you are confusing me with "hvedk"... I never used that example,
although I agree with his logic. I consider the extra pages as a contamination
of the resulting merged output. It makes it difficult to print, difficult to
review, and difficult to convert to PDF.
As for the wizard- I hate it. It is confusing, long, and doesn't do at all what
I want to do, which is to simply grab a few fields from a spreadsheet and place
them in a docuemnt I have already designed.
I do understand your explanation, I just still don't agree with it. I think it
is more broken in its current form, for more people, than it would be if the
blank pages were not added. If the user WANTED to print it in duplex, then
having the merge contain extra blank pages defeats that and makes them print
simplex. If the merge had no blank pages, it will still not print in duplex
unless the user had the printer locked down to ALWAYS print EVERYTHING in
duplex. And I have *never* seen anyone do that (in 22 years as an IT
professional).
Typically, using merge, the user will want separate physical pages for each
record. But that is not ALWAYS the case. In WordPerfect, for example, I use
merging all the time to make fancy reports in which there are more than one
record on a printed page. I also use merging to create multipart pages, in
which one page will be cut into separate physical parts later. Inserting blank
pages (or even new pages in these cases) tends to make that even more difficult.
I belive I understand some of the constraints with duplex. But at a very
minimum- there should be a choice in the merge dialog if the user wants to have
artifically added blank pages or not, with the default being "no". I would
propose this:
Page Control: [ ] Streaming- no pages breaks between records
[*] Page breaks- each record on a separate page
[ ] Page breaks plus an extra blank page
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