On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 13:27 25/05/2008 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote: > >> The behaviour of 2.4 compared to the previous release does vary. The >> previous version does not print the blank page. >> > > I hear you repeating this claim, but I don't believe it to be the case. > According to the web site, the option to suppress the printing of > automatically inserted blank pages dates from version 2.0.2 in early 2006. > So the blank pages themselves must date back at least that far. And > version 2.4 doesn't print the blank pages either - unless you have chosen to > have the option ticked to ask it to. 2.4 does it by default. You don't have to enable it. I've installed 2.4 on a newly formatted machine, and it prints the blank pages. 2.3 didn't on a fresh install. The trouble with the blank page is that nobody ever puts them back in the > printer, and they end up getting damaged and thrown away. Its just a waste > of paper. > > This is all true. So I don't understand why you or anyone else would > choose to have the option ticked to have these blank pages produced if they > were printing single-sided and didn't need them. That's the only puzzle for > me. Good housekeeping is only an un-tick away! > > I don't want to print double sided. >> > > Fine. Then you would surely not choose to have the option ticked and waste > the paper, would you? I obviously didn't now about the option to disable it. > > > The only remaining problem for single-sided documents is the incorrect > value for Page Count - but that may be cosmetic. The page count is obviously an issue on any single-sided unbound document.
