Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
Version: Evince 0.8.1 (with poppler 0.5.4)
OS: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on an AMD64
Printer: HP PSC 1510
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open a PDF document consisting of at least two pages with evince.
2) Choose file|print.
3) Select a physical printer (a HP PSC 1510 in my case).
3) On the General tab tick the 'Reverse Pages' box.
4) Go to the Page Setup tab and select '2' for 'Pages per Sheet'.
5) Finally click the Print button.
The default printing order results in the last page of the document being
printed last
and thus being on top in my printers queue. This is inconvenient and requires
me to
manually re-arrange the pages. Hence the Reverse Pages option would be a very
good solution for this.
Whilst this solution works well for prints where only a single page is printed
on each physical
sheet it does not yield the expected result when multiple pages are printing on
a sheet.
The funny thing is that when doing this the ordering of the pages is _also_
reversed on the
sheet itself. Thus page 1 is on the right side of the sheet, while page 2 is on
the left side.
I would expect this to be reversed. The dialog suggests that the sheet order is
reversed only
(by the two little page icons in the first tab of the print dialog, that
reverse when you tick reverse)
whilst what actually happens is that the page order is reversed ...
My suggestion would be to not reverse the page order, but only the sheet order.
Given an input of: 1 2 3 4 5 6
And Pages per Sheet set to '2'
The output page order (to the sheets) should be: 5 6 3 4 1 2
And _not_: 5 6 4 3 2 1 (as it is now).
Of course this problem also extends to _more_ than 2 pages per sheet.
One could also make this dependent on the locale. It might be normal in some
other countries / cultures
to read through pages right to left instead of left to right ....
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Evince printing in reverse sheet order + multipage yields strange ordering
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137241
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