Chuck Davis wrote:

Well, logically speaking, we should not have to set the paper options in more than one place. I'm all for OOO setting the page options and not having to futz with it in the printer setup dialog. As for printing booklets, I DO agree a booklet template would be handy. But setting the page from Format->Page is more intuitive than having to manually make sure the driver settings are in sync with the OOO page.

My $.02.

Chuck

On 6/6/06, Joseph Loo wrote:

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James Knott wrote:

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Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no wrote:

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Zhang Weiwu wrote:

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I used to print a lot of booklets, that's a simple job to do in OOO, just create the booklet in A5 size, select the printer, go to printer properties, select paper size to A4 and orientation to "Landscape", go to advanced print settings and click "brochure".

I was a bit surprised this option is 'removed' from SuSE native OOO package, the option "Orientation" simply isn't there, the OOO on Gentoo and Windows have 5 options on "Printer Properties" and OOO on SuSE there is 4 option.

What's the best solution for me now? Shall I install OOO from openoffice.org (the official RPM)?

Dang! You are right! I couldn't for the life of me understand where that function had gone!

Sign my up as one more who would like to know the answer...

Sometimes I get the impression that the SUSE developers think they know what we want, better than we do.

You did not mention which version of OOO you were usinge. I believe the portion that yuare looking for is at format->page. There you can select the paper and orientation. Sometimes, you need to go to the page preview, to set the page correctly. I had to fiddle with this for awhile.

I believe they changed this in pre-beta 2.0 version of OOO. I know that the windows version works similiar to the way you describe.

-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org

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I have found out that sometimes it works with a single place and some times it does not. It dould be my setup but then I notice, this occurs with different versions of OOO. I have not tried doing anything with the latest version. since SUSE does not provide an upgrade unless there is a major security hole. I do seem to have run into a problem when removing backgrounds on a text box with text boxes within text boxes. It usually crashes the program. I am currently running 2.0.1. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com