Subject: Re: Printing question
From: David Nay (dnay@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 13:23:48 CST
--- WJCarpenter <bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG> wrote:
> james> I think MS Word is right - isn't collating
> meant to collate all
> james> the copies of the same page together? (I
> thought it was
> james> originally designed back in the days when
> generating a page
> james> bitmap to send to the printer took a /long/
> time, so switching
> james> 'collate' on would speed things up for
> multiple copies, because
> james> each page was generated once then printed
> multiple times,
> james> instead of being generated multiple times,
> once for each copy.)
>
> Various points:
>
> 1. In MSWord 2000, the collate checkbox makes
> "123123". Unchecking
> it makes "112233". In other words, they do it the
> way we think it
> should be done.
>
If this is true, and we all agree that this is the
correct definition of collating, then Abiword is the
exact opposite of this, and should probably be fixed.
If someone can point me to the correct class that
implements this option, I will gladly do it. It
should only be 1-2 lines of code. (UT_Bool?)
> 2. Regardless of what the checkbox label is, there
> is a picture of
> pages with numbers on them, and the picture changes
> to match the state
> of the checkbox. For pseudo-ambiguous stuff like
> "collate", this is
> just about a must-have.
>
This is what I had in mind to put into place for our
dialog. Currently (Linux) Abiword only has:
[X] Collate
in the dialog box. Again, if I can be pointed to the
dialog class, I could give it a shot fixing the GTK
platform.
> 3. "Collate" actually means to put copies in
> correct numerical order,
> not to put all like pages together. It predates
> word processing by
> billions of years. There used to be a step in the
> printing/publishing
> of any big document called "collation" (before
> photocopiers could do
> it for us) where you laid out stacks of pages on a
> table and went
> along picking up one of each to make complete
> copies. There was a
> stapler at the end of the table. Some organizations
> had staff areas
> who did pretty much only this.
> --
That's been my experience also.
> bill@carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119
> 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3
>
>
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