Publisher Print panel: pages-to-print control should be separated from Range and Scale settings.

[Compositor K]

I often need to print odd pages in a given page range, and then even pages in the same range.

When doing so, it seems necessary to select

Range And Scale > Range > Entire Document (quite counter-intuitive, since the choices include odd/even)

and select odd or even pages with Paper Handling > Sheets 

With two places offering the odd/even choice, it took me quite a bit of experimentation to figure out that one had to be ignored, and which one that was.

I can see now that, in Range and Scale, the Range choices presumably apply only to the Fit Type and Orientation settings. But that same Pages setting controls which pages are to be printed (as well as, perhaps, which pages are affected by the Fit and Orientation settings).

It would be much clearer if the "Range and Scale" section were renamed "Fit and Orientation", under which the Pages settings would only apply to those settings. The pages to print setting should be moved elsewhere, perhaps below the Copies setting.

 

[Lee D]

@Compositor K That is the default Print UI provided to our apps and others by macOS. We may not have much control over which options are available and the wording.

[Compositor K]

@Lee D

Thanks very much for that information. Knowing that Affinity is stuck with a complete Apple print UI explains a lot. I've seen that sort of thing from Apple over the years. Unfortunately, there's no point in me writing to them. (Or to Adobe, of course. The fact that I get cogent and helpful responses from Affinity staff is quite impressive.)

I see that InDesign CC on my Mac has the "pages to print" range separated from the fit and orientation settings. But Adobe is big enough and influential enough to do things that smaller companies can't. Such as the notorious subscriptions, and turning their applications into bloatware  by trying to turn them into a complete cloud workflow technology. At which, I believe, they will fail, because a cluster---k is not a workflow.

Onward, Affinity!