Description of problem: The printing of multiple pages per sheet in the printing dialog only works for some cases. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.3.0-6.11.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: A 1. Create a Text Document containing one site using Open Office 2. Press File -> Print 3. Select "2 copies" 4. Go to the tab "Page Setup" in the printing dialog and select "pages per side": 2 5. Press print B 1. Create a Text Document containing one site using Open Office 2. Press File -> Print 3. Go to the tab "Page Setup" in the printing dialog and select "pages per side": 2 4. Press print Actual results: Nothing is being printed Expected results: For A: The same text should be printed two times on a page. For B: Either the text should only be printed on half of the page nor the text should be printed on the whole page. Additional info:
A correction about the expected results. +---+ | A | | | +---+ x 2 copies For case A, the expected output is two sheets: +------+ +------+ | A | | A | | | | | +------+ +------+ Think about a 29 page hand-out: if the 15th sheet has page 29 of the first copy and page 1 of the second copy, it's useless. For case B, the expected output is a single page of one of the above two copies. (i.e. A is two copies of B.)
With the fixed cups of #433753 I now get the results of Comment #1 in F-9/rawhide, I didn't check in F-8 but it should work there too I think, unless the F-9 only improvements of #422661 are neccessary, but for this specific example I don't think so.
Yes I can confirm that the issues have been fixed. But I can think of a scenario in which there's still something missing: Imagine you are a teacher and write a class test which is 1 page long. Now, you want to print it for your students and as they are young and have good eyes, you want to put two class tests on a sheet. The current way to do it is this way: You copy the class test and paste in on another page. After, you select "two pages per sheet" and select the amount of copies to be students / 2 which is not the best solution.
Hm I better open a new bug report against GNOME's printing dialog.