[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2051: Support for booklet printing

[John Layt]

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KDE4 no longer supports pre-filtering of print jobs before submitting to
CUPS, so cannot support booklet printing through this method.  While KDE3
will survive for a while, this does mean that the only fairly
user-friendly way of booklet printing will soon no longer be widely
available.  

While KDE4 and Qt could find another way of achieving booklet printing, it
would be far better if booklet printing was universally available for all
applications and toolkits that support CUPS, i.e. OpenOffice.org and
Firefox and Gnome (and OSX!) should all have booklet printing easily
available, not just KDE or Qt apps.

Thinking about the issue, isn't booklet printing just 2-up printing with a
special page layout?  The simple api implementation would be to add a new
value for 'number-up-layout=booklet' that is only valid for 'number-up=2'
(but 4 and 16 could also work?).  The more advanced implementation would
be a new option for booklet that in the background translates to 2-up with
booklet layout.  Note that some cultures read from the 'back' to the
'front' of the booklet, so either 'outputorder=reverse' would be applied,
or another layout of 'booklet-reverse' would be provided.  I'm not sure
how 'landscape' would affect all this.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2051
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