Subject: Re: Printing question
From: David Nay (dnay@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 09:23:03 CST
--- James Montgomerie <jamie@montgomerie.net> wrote:
> > --- Martin Sevior
> <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David Nay wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all.
> > > >
> > > > I just printed out multiple copies of a
> > > multi-paged
> > > > Abiword document. When I printed, I checked
> the
> > > > 'collate' option in the print dialog. This
> gave
> > > me
> > > > the following page sequence:
> > > >
> > > > 11112222333344445555
> > > >
> > > > I was expecting:
> > > >
> > > > 12345123451234512345
> > > >
> > > > Am I thinking backwards? I believe that
> collated
> > > > should group the print out according to my
> second
> > > > example.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Dave,
> > > Your expectation is what I think of
> collating too.
>
> ...
>
> > Hmmmm....one Lemming jumps off a cliff...
> >
> > Is it really necessary to follow what MS Word
> does?
> > Just because they do it, does not make it the
> right
> > way.
>
> I think MS Word is right - isn't collating meant to
> collate all the copies of the
> same page together? (I thought it was originally
> designed back in the days when
> generating a page bitmap to send to the printer took
> a /long/ time, so switching
> 'collate' on would speed things up for multiple
> copies, because each page was
> generated once then printed multiple times, instead
> of being generated multiple
> times, once for each copy.)
>
> Jamie
>
Since there is some confusion regarding the definition
of the term collating, I begin to wonder if our
"church secretary" would know this term? Perhaps we
could simplify the dialog box for the end usr by
removing the word collate. We could replace that
section of the dialog with:
Printing sequence:
[X] 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 [ ] 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4
This would be much easier for everyone to understand.
Dave
=====
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