double-sided report problem

Atom · Post by **Atom** » 2007-07-13 13:08:52

Hi all!

Being my first post here, first off all I would like to thank antp very much for this great program. I have been using it for a couples of years now and I really love it

. ¡Thank you!

The thing is that, now, in order to do a two sided report.what I have done is a report with two pages, each page with a "master data" "band" filling the whole page. The thing is that the information appears ok, *but* what I get is first all the "front" pages for all the films and, after them, all the "back" pages for all the films.

Of course what I would like to have is for each film the two corresponding pages one after the other so that I can print the full report double-sided. I have looked at the manual and searched the forums but haven't found anything regarding this subject, so, is it possible?

Post by **antp** » 2007-07-13 13:53:14

Hi,
This kind of things can sometimes be done in the printer settings. If your printer does not offer it, you can print to a PDF (using CutePDF or PDFCreator for example) and then in Adobe Acrobat Reader you have the option to print odd or even pages.

Atom · Post by **Atom** » 2007-07-13 14:21:44

Hi antp, thanks for the quick answer.

Yes, what I do in fact is printing it to a pdf so that I can move the report around to print it. But, the problem is the other way round: I do have a double side printer, *but* the order the report generates is not the "correct" one.

If I call "f" for front and "b" for back, and the number is the film number, I want the report to generate 1f 1b 2f 2b 3f 3b ...nf nb (i.e., film1-front, film1-back, film2-front, film2-back ...), so that I can pdf it and double-side print it easily.

But what I get form AMC is 1f 2f 3f...nf 1b 2b...nb i.e., *all* the frot pages first, followed by *all* the back faces. You see what I mean? Is this the expected behaviour?

ps: BTW you have to know that I can use AMC with no problems also in Linux under wine. You have some minor glitches in the designer but it works 99%. Great! :-)

Post by **antp** » 2007-07-13 17:58:45

I see, I made few tests but it seems that it is not possible to make it otherwise

The report part is not made by me, I use a ready-to-use component that handles the preview and print. The designer is also part of that.

Atom · Post by **Atom** » 2007-07-13 21:00:52

Ok, thanks for the help. I finally did a python script which reorders the pdf.