Make Default Printing/Collate Setting Customizable

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SumatraPDF reader

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Make Default Printing/Collate Setting Customizable #1558

Open pmamat opened 4 years ago

pmamat commented 4 years ago

First: Thank you for this great software!

I often print a PDF multiple times (e.g. contracts). The default setting for "collate" is "off" -- compare the screenshot given here: https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/how-to-print-a-document-multiple-times-but-not-each-page-of-the-document-many-times/2386/2 It would be great if I could customize the default value of this setting.

Thanks a lot in advance! Philipp

GitHubRulesOK commented 4 years ago

Generally SumatraPDF simply uses the system default printer settings as stored by windows registry and makes few if any changes (hence lots of requests to do this and that) That also in general applies to most default settings for the secondary printers as you will see below. Many print drivers have means to change and store those secondary functions, thus when I send a 7 page report to my paper printer it will change the order since my default is set to auto collate

See here mine is set for me and I can't change it to NOT collate even if I wanted to in SumatraPDF or many other apps

lolo9538 commented 7 months ago

I've made a feature request https://sumatrapdf.canny.io/feature-requests/p/make-default-printing-collate-setting-customizable

TerraD commented 7 months ago

If this is possible it would be a great idea. My Universal HP driver is set by default to not collate. This can be changed through some admin tool - but this was so complicated I never could realize it...

It's simply a stupidity to have a document uncollated when it is possible to print it collated. So much time lost... printing may be a bit slower but it saves a lot of time compared to the manual process!

sturgman commented 1 week ago

I see something similar to @GitHubRulesOK above except I am stuck in not collating. Is there a way to switch the default? How did you do it @GitHubRulesOK ?

GitHubRulesOK commented 1 week ago

@sturgman Windows controls printing not SumatraPDF unless you were to call a n external script such as "uncollated" which would need to be provided in my case by "The Hewlett-Packard Company," as the "printing default" so before SumatraPDF starts

All I can attempt is any driver choice and unsure if even that applies as the default is always the same.

Collate on Collate off