ursmax
June 30th, 2005, 03:34 AM
Hi,
first let me thank you for your speedy and very useful application. You're doing a great job :D
I'm not english so perhaps some clarifications are probably useful:
I'll be using "page" for what's displayed on screen, "printpage" for what should appear on paper (either front or back of sheet), and "sheet" for a sheet of paper.
I'm using Foxit v1.3beta b0617 on WinXP SP2.
Problem 1:
Changes made in the Print Dialog -> Properties have no effect. Initial printer properties do have an effect.
Problem2:
I assume changing "Print Handling" properties in the print dialog should have an effect as displayed in the preview window, ignoring any non-default printer settings. These settings, however, have a cumulative effect:
- Printer properties were set to "Page layout, duplex printing" (two pages per printpage, one printpage each on front and back of sheet). These settings were made before starting FoxIt.
- "print handling" in the print dialog were set to "1 copy, fit to paper, multiple pages per sheet, rotate=clockwise, page order=horizontal, pages per sheet=2, auto-center=yes"
The result: Each printpage contains 4 pages. Since both back and front are printed to, one sheet contains 8 pages.
Problem3:
When changing "Print range" to "from...to..." and manually typing a page number in one of the controls, the control whose value I'm editing loses focus after typing the first digit, so if I want to type "52" I need to click the control two times. This behaviour always happens if it's the first thing I do after opening the print dialog, but on other (rather rare occasions) the control did not lose focus. IMHO, values entered should also be verified against the documents pages, and "from" mustn't be smaller than "to" (making it impossible to enter ranges like "6 to -2" (negative number not a typo), and "100 to 200" for a document with only 120 pages).
The above occured with Adobe Acrobat v6.0 multilingual installed. After uninstall and install Adobe Reader v7.0 some printer properties can't be changed using FoxIt print dialog -> properties.
Problem 2, take 2:
But even with Acrobat v7.0 installed the result for problem 2 differs largely from what I get with Acrobat Reader :(
Default values seem to be largely ignored (Ok), the printpage does get rotated by 90 degrees (good), width used looks good, but height used is just about half of what's available (not good). The printpage looks as if height had been reduced by 50% using some kind of a scale-function in between, ahm, generating print output and actually printing it.
Something new:
Printer setting for one- or two-sided printing is ignored. I think people should be able to set this, too. Maybe use printer settings as default for an additional option?
P.S
I'm not english, so sometimes I'm not sure if the term is correct, so I try a short description/explanation in brackets in order avoid misunderstandings.
cheers
ursmax
first let me thank you for your speedy and very useful application. You're doing a great job :D
I'm not english so perhaps some clarifications are probably useful:
I'll be using "page" for what's displayed on screen, "printpage" for what should appear on paper (either front or back of sheet), and "sheet" for a sheet of paper.
I'm using Foxit v1.3beta b0617 on WinXP SP2.
Problem 1:
Changes made in the Print Dialog -> Properties have no effect. Initial printer properties do have an effect.
Problem2:
I assume changing "Print Handling" properties in the print dialog should have an effect as displayed in the preview window, ignoring any non-default printer settings. These settings, however, have a cumulative effect:
- Printer properties were set to "Page layout, duplex printing" (two pages per printpage, one printpage each on front and back of sheet). These settings were made before starting FoxIt.
- "print handling" in the print dialog were set to "1 copy, fit to paper, multiple pages per sheet, rotate=clockwise, page order=horizontal, pages per sheet=2, auto-center=yes"
The result: Each printpage contains 4 pages. Since both back and front are printed to, one sheet contains 8 pages.
Problem3:
When changing "Print range" to "from...to..." and manually typing a page number in one of the controls, the control whose value I'm editing loses focus after typing the first digit, so if I want to type "52" I need to click the control two times. This behaviour always happens if it's the first thing I do after opening the print dialog, but on other (rather rare occasions) the control did not lose focus. IMHO, values entered should also be verified against the documents pages, and "from" mustn't be smaller than "to" (making it impossible to enter ranges like "6 to -2" (negative number not a typo), and "100 to 200" for a document with only 120 pages).
The above occured with Adobe Acrobat v6.0 multilingual installed. After uninstall and install Adobe Reader v7.0 some printer properties can't be changed using FoxIt print dialog -> properties.
Problem 2, take 2:
But even with Acrobat v7.0 installed the result for problem 2 differs largely from what I get with Acrobat Reader :(
Default values seem to be largely ignored (Ok), the printpage does get rotated by 90 degrees (good), width used looks good, but height used is just about half of what's available (not good). The printpage looks as if height had been reduced by 50% using some kind of a scale-function in between, ahm, generating print output and actually printing it.
Something new:
Printer setting for one- or two-sided printing is ignored. I think people should be able to set this, too. Maybe use printer settings as default for an additional option?
P.S
I'm not english, so sometimes I'm not sure if the term is correct, so I try a short description/explanation in brackets in order avoid misunderstandings.
cheers
ursmax