Double Sided Printing with OpenOffice.org

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 24 14:12:06 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 20:43 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> I have a nice new HP 7780 printer, which has the double sided printing
> add-on. The system is Fedora 7 as updated, OOo is
> openoffice.org-core-2.2.0-14.11.i386.
> 
> Suppose I have a two page document I want to print double sided. Page
> one should go on side A, 2 on B.
> 
> OO does just fine if you print one copy. Print seven and you get
> several sheets with page 1 on both sides. I aborted at that point to
> save paper.
> 
> Adobe Reader was a disaster: it pulled from the wrong tray as well as
> bungling the double sided stuff.
> 
> Evince did it right: print two copies at a throw (OK, I'm paranoid),
> and page 1 goes to side A consistently, page 2 to B.
> 
> I suspect from the fact that Evince did it right that Reader and OOo
> have problems, not the printer driver.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> RFE: It would be nice if programs showed the command line they build
> for ghostscript. It would help diagnose problems like this.
> 
The key issue is you can't do what you want to do with NetwrokManager.
First of all configuration of wireless is done on a per user basis.
NM.07 is supposed to change this.
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