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chicken ([personal profile] chicken) wrote2004-01-06 03:29 pm
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Duplex printing in Panther

What the hey, Panther (OS X 10.3.2) seems to have removed the "Duplex" checkbox from the Print dialogue box in all my Apps. What the hell? Does anyone know what went wrong, where they hid it or why they took it away, or whether I am just blind?
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[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2004-01-07 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
This Usenet thread may have the answer:

According to Rod Smith: "The "duplex option" has been moved in Panther to the "Layout" section of
the print dialogue. There, binding edges must be selected to make it
active."

I see it there ("Two-Sided Printing") but it's permanently grayed out for me because my printer doesn't do that.

[identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com 2004-01-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Well that's a weird place to have moved it! I swear I looked there, but my eyes were probably in habit mode and refused to see it. Thanks, I will try that tomorrow. (It's the HP LaserJet 4000-something at the office, the one that has done duplex for years).

They moved so many things around to places that don't make sense in that they depart from 10.1 and Jaguar, especially some of the System Preferences stuff. Some things that had previously been separate got consolidated into the Security and Accounts panes, that made it very frustrating to set things up properly.

Another disappointment is Panther's keyboard switcher, which is so inferior to the major third-party app (Keyboard Maestro). One can only switch forward, not back, for example, and the icon size, icon placement, and background color don't seem configurable, unlike in Keyboard Maestro, and switching within apps is not enabled, and on-the-fly switch-and-quit is not a feature, and most of the other handy keystrokes don't exist, etc. Apple should have just paid Michael Kamprath for his code instead of lamely trying to reinvent the wheel.

Plus, as you mentioned in a previous post, OroborOSX/XDarwin stopped working, and Apple's own X11 refused to install properly.

I'll finish setting things up soon, as these obstacles are not too hard to overcome; I just wish the transition had been a bit smoother. And since I am the only one who uses my machine, I am SO not turning on File Vault, given its many problems.

Thanks again for solving the Duplex problem (I hope -- I don't have a duplex-capable printer at home to test on).
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