Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 29108
Collation does not work with multiple pages per sheet
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:21:02 UTC
When a presentation with an odd number of slides is printed 2 pages/slides per sheet and multiple copies are printed with "collated" selected - the first and last page/slide appear on the same sheet when the second copy starts printing. Thus the second copy does not start with the first page/slide at the top of the sheet.
Created attachment 15211 [details] Three powerpoint slides
It appears that the "create single print jobs" does not exist for Presentations and Spreadsheets (and perhaps other programs). This prevents just this kind of problem in Writer.
Reassigned to Christian.
Please tell me where do you set the 2 slides on 1 page option. Is it a printer option or do you set it in the office (e.g. the handouts in Impress)?
I go to File -> Print -> Properties and select 2 per page -> OK -> select number of copies = 2 and select "collate" -> OK (to print).
My printer is a HP Laserjet 1000
This is a feature of the printer and npt in the Offie. Therefore we can't fix the bug. I change the resolution to invalid Please write a Feature (or enhancement) request for adding the "create single print jobs" function in Impress, Draw and Calc, too. A feature request is a normal issue with the issue type Feature (or enhancement)
I close the issue as invalid
I disagree with this issue being called invalid and closed. It is a genuine defect that needs to be fixed and not a new feature that needs to be added. Whenever collation was designed they forgot to handle mutiple copies being printed for multiple pages per sheet where the page count is not a power of 2. It's a legal fiction to say that a defect needs to be fixed by an enhancement. I'm confused! Where is Writer located that does not have this defect? Is that an old name for something else in OpenOffice?
Writer is the name for the text application. I will have a look soon and compare it with older OOo and SO versions. If the collate printing is broken I reopen this issue as bug and send it to the developer. If the collate printing doesen' t change it is an enhancement and I will send this issue as enhancement to the user experience team.
*** Issue 29215 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
OC told me that you manage the issues for collate duplex printing. Please have also a look on this issue.
Changed Target
changing the target did not work last time...
I can reproduce the issue "printing" to a pdf file (using Acrobat printer driver). This makes me think that the same will happen with any printer too. So, I agree with jimronback that this is a defect and not an enhancement. I attach the "printed" pdf file.
Created attachment 28270 [details] result of "printing" the file to a pdf file
Confirming issue (please correct me if I should not confirm it).