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Hello dualPrint

Hi, my name is Javier Oscar Cordero Pérez and I have just gotten into programming for the 'who know what number is this' time of my life. On this occasion I've gotten further into it and developed something that works, not for me or for a few, but for everyone who needs to print papers. I present to you: "dualPrint".

dualPrint is a multiplatform application designed to help people in printing large documents on both sides of the paper.

Let's say you want to save paper when printing a document. To do so, you can print on both sides of paper sheets or print multiple pages on each side of the sheets, like done in handouts. Most printers and printer dialogues don't offer an easy way to do these two simple tasks, that's where dualPrint comes in.

Version 1.0(b)
* Tell dualPrint basic information about the document's pages and it will generate the outputs to copy into the printer dialogues.
+ This is the first version of dualPrint, it has two bugs. The program, I made to help students of the University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus, have less trouble when printing at C.E.T.E.M.'s computer laboratories. It is released under the MIT License.

Version 1.1
* dualPrint eliminates the need to manually change between odd and even pages, which can be tricky to find among different programs and printing dialogues.
+ All bugs from version 1 have been fixed. Copy to clipboard buttons have been added.
+ At the moment of this blog post this version is near finished yet already made available on-line.

Future versions of dualPrint
* dualPrint also guides you in the process of inverting pages so you won't have to waste paper on trial and error.
+ Guidance help features are in the process of making.

dualPrint is built using Illumination Software Creator. I will offer dedicated releases for Linux, Windows, Mac and HTML5/web. Also release it in English, Spanish, and any other language that becomes possible. Once these platforms are fully supported I hope to improve the Android version and, maybe, create one for iOS.
My intentions are to go deeper into programing, not to expand dualPrint, but to develop various other multiplatform Free/Libre opensource media applications.

Posted by Javier O. Cordero-Pérez 2012-06-25

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