"Combine sides" should be "combine pages"?

While Robert's German skills are quite good, he's a native English speaker. It's probably worth reviewing if "sides" is appropriate here. Until that, there's nothing to do on the translation side (unless translating the string in the first place, which shouldn't be tracked as a bug).

I didn't do any of the translations - they are automagically done by Ubuntu translators via Launchpad.

Robert Ancell [2014-10-10 7:56 -0000]:
> I didn't do any of the translations

This is about the original ("C") string in the upstream source, not
the translation.

Oh, now I get it.

I tried to check this but I cannot locate "combine sides" in the latest revision (24):

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/utopic/simple-scan/utopic/view/head:/src/ui.vala

Try this direct link to the Gaelic localization pages
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/utopic/+source/simple-scan/+pots/simple-scan/gd/+translate?show=untranslated

When searching for "side" in launchpad translations it appears that the author by "sides" means "front/back side". Simply replacing sides by pages does not seem to be the best wording, either, IMO.

What is the actual outcome of "combine sides", is this a print related thing to print side by side or what? I'm still struggling to figure out what this actually does.

My memory's a little fuzzy on the matter, so do excuse me if I'm about to write a load of nonsense, but I remember coming across this a few years ago, and in the end left it be for English UK for lack of certainty.

At the time I remember considering the concept - Imagine you are scanning a document into a pdf with 6 A4 'sides' (3 sheets of paper) but they are numbered within like: frontpage, index, page 1, page 2, page 3 and page 4.

On your 3rd sheet of paper, page 4 (of the work) is actually on side 6.

Without digging into it back then, I presumed the strings were intentionally written in as they were to account for the non-interchangeablity between the three terms.

Each sheet is made up of a front side and a back side of course, and you may find yourself wishing to combine different sides (e.g. sides 3-6 inclusive in the example above contain the actually information, which is equivalent to asking for 'pages 1 - 4'?)

Alternatively, whether 'page' was used to mean 'sheet' instead, I can't recall.

Hm that doesn't make sense, neither as a feature nor in terms of the UI string. As a feature it doesn't make sense because - should I want the pages in a different order - I can do that once it's a PDF. In terms of the UI string, if that's what it means, certainly the current wording would not make a user interpret it that way. I guess something like "Change output order" or something like that.

But if that's what "Combine sides" means, what does "Combine sides (reverse)" mean?