Reverse Print order quirk in Word 2004

[ronald.gold]

I have G4 iMac with Canon i560 printer, OS X 10.3.7. If I select
"Reverse Print Order" on the Print Preference pane of Word 2004 (11.1)
AND also select the "Reverse Page Order" on the Paper Handling
Preferences of the Print Dialog, then Word does NOT print in reverse
page order. In order to get reverse print order, only 1 of the two
preferences can be selected. I have deselected the Word preference and
kept the Paper Handling preference of the Print Dialog selected. This
did not happen with earlier versions of Word (back to 5.1 - the best).

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks for reporting.

The preferences pane is a Word setting--the Print Dialog (most of it,
anyhow) controls settings in the printer driver, which is what controls the
printer. Those are separate entities, though they work very closely
together. So, yes, setting it twice will wind up as a double negative and
cancel it out.

Wildly guessing at explanations: perhaps previous versions of Word checked
for redundancy and handled it--I vaguely suspect that the failure of Word
2004 to do so may be an issue brought over from the windows version in the
reach for cross-platform compatibility, as I have heard the same of Win
versions.

 

[John McGhie]

That's interesting, but it would be "expected behaviour". The Print dialog
is an OS dialog, Word only displays it. The other dialog is a Word dialog.

Confusing, yes. If it was not doing it that way before, then I suspect we
have "fixed" a bug

I have G4 iMac with Canon i560 printer, OS X 10.3.7. If I select
"Reverse Print Order" on the Print Preference pane of Word 2004 (11.1)
AND also select the "Reverse Page Order" on the Paper Handling
Preferences of the Print Dialog, then Word does NOT print in reverse
page order. In order to get reverse print order, only 1 of the two
preferences can be selected. I have deselected the Word preference and
kept the Paper Handling preference of the Print Dialog selected. This
did not happen with earlier versions of Word (back to 5.1 - the best).

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