On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:51:10AM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote:
> At present you must choose one of "All pages", "Only odd" or "Only
> even". In addition, you can set for each of those the page range
> from/to. That is what I found very strange and bad design. What means:
> "All pages, from 4 to 17" ?
>
> Okay, you may have a case by asking, what means: "All pages, with Odd
> pages only"? But this is not so strange. You may want "All pages, but
> odd only", or you may want "page 4 to 17, but the even only".
>
> That's why I made the "odd/even pages only" as independent check
> buttons, and only toggle between "All pages" and "Pages: from/to".
>
> I must take care of preventing the selection of both, odd AND even
> pages only. That's indeed a weak point of present layout; but it's
> still much better than the one before, I believe.
>
> Does all that make sense to you?
I think you're digging yourself into a hole here. We have two separate
notions :
1) Page range. For printing subparts of a document.
2) Recto/verso. For by-hand duplex printing.
I don't think these things should be mingled as you are suggesting. Now
I agree that the current design is perhaps a little bit confusing. Maybe
we could have a checkbox "Print left, then right." that prompts
inbetween. I belive this is how some other programs do duplex printing.
regards
john
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