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[John King <johnmking_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For some time I've used the brochure printing facility in the versions of 
openoffice.org downloaded from the openoffice.ord site to produce A5 
brochures, catalogues, programmes etc.  However, in the latest 
version of openoffice 10.2 downloaded from the opensuse servers, it is no 
longer possible to print in brochure format.

Briefly, for those who have not used this facility in openoffice, you set a 
page format of A5 portrait, enter your text and graphics, and then at 
printing time choose the options sub-dialogue of the print dialogue and 
select 'brochure', then in the printer properties dialogue, set the paper 
size to A4 and the orientation to Landscape.  A multipage brochure is then 
printed out in A5 format, with all the pages arranged for stapling.  (if you 
haven't got a duplex printer, you have to make 2 passes, but the page size 
and orientation principle remains the same).  Full explanations are in the 
openoffice help under 'brochures', with the specific instruction to set the 
orientation to Landscape.

In the 'standard' openoffice package downloaded from the ooo site, this works 
as described.  You can see a .png of the printer properties dialogue on

http://www.kingshome.co.uk/ooo/bugs/standard-ooo2.2.png

Similarly, the staroffice 8 version is the same:

http://www.kingshome.co.uk/ooo/bugs/staroffice8.png

These have been tested out on both Suse 10 and opensuse 10.2

However, the recent opensuse ooo2.2 (on both suse 10 and 10.2) does not 
behave in the same way.  When you click on the printer properties, a dialogue 
comes up that does not allow you to set landscape orientation for the paper, 
as shown on:

http://www.kingshome.co.uk/ooo/bugs/opensuse-ooo2.2.png

This makes it impossible to print out in brochure format with 2 A5 portrait 
pages side by side.

It seems as if the orientation in the opensuse version of ooo can only be that 
of the page format in the original document, not the one set at printing 
time, as in the 'standard' versions.  I don't know whether this is a bug or 
not, but it is odd that it behaves differently.  I've also tried this out 
with different printers, with the same result in the various applications, so 
I do not think it is a printer driver problem.

Is there any way round this?


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John

johnmking_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx

                
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