147318 - give user the ability to print any pages in any order

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement, P3)

Description

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

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Right now, inside the "Print" dialog window, there's a section called "Print
Range" in which there're three choices: "All", "Pages From x to y", and
"Selection".  It would be nice to have one more choice: Pages, in which a user
can specify any pages in any order he wants to print, eg 1, 4-6, 3, 2.

This function would be especially wonderful for me because I like to print pages
in book format, ie, every page is printed on A5 such that one A4 can have four
pages. If I could choose the order to print, I could have printouts like this
(for the first 4 pages):

+---+---+
|   |   |
| 4 | 1 |  (Front)
|   |   |
+---+---+

+---+---+
|   |   |
| 2 | 3 |  (Back)
|   |   |
+---+---+

In this way, when you fold the papers, they would become a very nice book.

Comment 1

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

Rethinking about my proposal, I think there's no need to add one more choice. 
(Idea copied from Word) replace this GUI

o Pages  from [_____] to [_____]

by this GUI

o Pages  [____________]
  Enter pages numbers or range by commas, eg, 3,1,6-9

Comment 2

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

Somebody's here???