Issue 18366 - print multiple pages per sheet should be more accessible
Summary: print multiple pages per sheet should be more accessible
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: christoph.lukasiak
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
: 22027 49048 69440 (view as issue list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-08-18 19:27 UTC by bulbul
Modified: 2010-03-17 13:47 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description bulbul 2003-08-18 19:27:13 UTC 
There are two parts to this bug:

1. Put the function in a drop-down menu.

   Currently, the "print multiple pages per sheet" function is only available 
   by clicking on an icon in the print preview dialog. This is an accessibility 
   issue. There should be a way to do this from the drop-down menus, as well.

   In addition to the fact that this is an accessibility issue, having the 
   function only available from an icon makes the function very hard to 
   discover.

2. Put the function in the print dialog.

   People will look for this functionality in the print dialog. This is 
   intuitively where it should go.
Comment 1 h.ilter 2003-08-25 15:43:56 UTC 
Reassigned to BH
Comment 2 utomo99 2003-09-20 06:31:31 UTC 
Many people cannot find this print multiple page "tricks" easily. 
If we can put somewhere we can reduce the people problem when they
want to print multiple pages per sheet. 

Where to put need to be studied more better. 
I think we can use the suggestion solutions: to put this option at the
print dialog, instead at the print preview
Comment 3 dankegel 2005-10-28 05:38:53 UTC 
Adding "accessibility" keyword
Comment 4 lohmaier 2006-08-02 23:23:49 UTC 
*** Issue 49048 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 mux2005 2006-08-03 08:55:41 UTC 
MS Word has N-UP printing directly in the Print... Dialog, so people who used to
have Word miss this feature.
Comment 6 kpalagin 2007-04-24 05:05:41 UTC 
*** Issue 69440 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 kpalagin 2007-08-02 09:32:16 UTC 
*** Issue 22027 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 malte_timmermann 2009-12-07 11:54:15 UTC 
Toolbar icons are accessible. 
I agree that this is not very usable in general, but it's a pure UX issue, not
especially accessibility related.

mt->clu: Please make a proposal.
Comment 9 Regina Henschel 2009-12-07 12:27:38 UTC 
The current way of N-up printing will become obsolete with integrating of CWS
printerpullpages for OOo3.3. Please test the way it is done there.
ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/printerpullpages/

More information on
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Printerpullpages
Comment 10 christoph.lukasiak 2010-03-17 13:45:36 UTC 
thx regina for this hint .. i can acknowledge that (please have a look at the
new behavior, because the old dialoges get redundant soon)
Comment 11 christoph.lukasiak 2010-03-17 13:47:26 UTC 
close