At Joybell's second post:

19 Jan 10 - 06:14 PM

Thank you for your trouble Guest 999. I found the "Duplex Printing" term. I already knew I could print single pages and turn them over so it was no help.
So Publisher can't just print evens or odds then?

I don't see why this means you have to print one sheet at a time.

If you check on the Duplex Printing, when you print you should get a print of all of the even numbered pages (or all of the odd numbered ones) and the printer will stop and wait for you to turn the intire stack over and put it back in the feed tray. When you've made the swap, the printer will resume and will print the other side of the pages (odd or even, depending on which were printed first). The computer will take care of reversing the print order automatically if needed. You should not need to do it "one page at a time."

In programs that offer "duplex printing" or "print both sides" you probably/usually won't find the "print odd pages" or "print even pages" choices.

For a work-around, if you absolutely need to print only one side of pages, a workaround is to use the duplex printing setting to print one side, but take the printed sheets out of the printer and then cancel the print job without printing the other side.

If your printer starts the duplex print job on the even pages and you only want the odd pages, just insert one page at the front of the document to shift the page numbers and start a new "duplex print" job, aborting after the one side you want is printed.

Note that if you have to "insert a page" to shift the page numbers, you probably will want to make a copy of the original file and edit and print from the copy (which you can delete when finished, if you want) so you don't accidentally replace the original if the version with the extra page gets saved. If you're printing page numbers, you'll have to "restart" the numbers after the inserted page. If you're including a Table of Contents or Index other adjustments will be needed. Thus it's sometimes not a trivial "go back" to restore to the original document.

If you only need, for example, the odd pages from page 37 through 41, you should be able to set the "print pages" range independent from the setting to print duplex or print both sides that you need to set in order to print only every other page.

The "duplex printing" and "print both sides," and removal of the option to print odd or print even are a result of the same "new philosophy" that pervades Office 2007:

users are too stupid to be allowed to do what they want to do, and should only be permitted to use "simple features" that "we" decide they need.

(The corrolary to the new philosophy is that the people who designed the "new programs" were selected for their lack of knowledge about how the old programs worked and how they were used.)

The "simplified methods" aren't always simpler to work with.

John