Booklet printing is not working correctly with Word 2003 and with Word 2002 (330071)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002
This article was previously published under Q330071 SYMPTOMS Booklet printing from Microsoft Office Word 2003 and from Microsoft Word 2002 to a PostScript
printer generates pages that are overwritten. Output appears in ordinary letter
page size instead of being reduced to half-page size. CAUSE In most cases, when printing PostScript, the driver does n-up printing (n pages per sheet). However, with booklet printing (2 pages per
sheet), you also have to order the pages. Because the driver cannot do page
ordering, the print processor must handle both tasks of n-up printing and page
ordering.
To do n-up printing, the print processor uses the Graphics Device
Interface (GDI) transformation matrix to scale and rotate each page.
Additionally, the print processor must control the order in which pages are
played back. GDI then replays the spool job (the enhanced metafile [EMF]), and
the driver converts it to PostScript code. The driver does not do any rotating
or scaling.
The spool file may contain PostScript code, which GDI
can neither rotate nor scale and must send directly to the driver. The driver
sends this PostScript code directly to the printer without applying any
transformation. Therefore, the PostScript part of the EMF is printed without
scaling or rotating, while the non-PostScript part of the EMF prints as
expected. STATUSThis
behavior is by design.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 6/29/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb KB330071 |
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