Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 435621
Needs ability to print one page two times on a sheet without extra actions (like copying and pasting) required
Last modified: 2013-03-13 00:51:22 EDT
Description of problem: 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 and easiest solution.
See also bug 433668 (partly)
I don't understand what you are looking for? Printing two documents on the same page? That would be an application level feature. The print infrastructure just prints what the application sends to it and only abstracts on the page and data stream level. It has no idea what a document is. The applications would have to stream both documents as if they were one. Really what you want is the ability for your applications to load one document into another document so you can skip the copy and paste part which can be error prone. This is also very specialized so having someone write a standalone utility that could load a number of pdf's and print them out in a number of different configurations would give you the most flexibility without feature bloating an application. I'd call it ditto after the old precursors to the copy machines ;-) In any case OO can already load one document into another. Just go to the insert menu and select "file..." I don't think an application would implement anything more than that.
The description in the first paragraph makes my report useless :) Thanks for your clarification.
can I close this then or do you want to reassign it to another component?
Please close then. Thanks again.