On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Chuck Davis wrote:

I don't know if this will work for everyone but, helping my wife with a spreadsheet a couple of nights ago, I discovered the same "feature". Fortunately, by changing the document page layout on the page menu, the printer driver picked up the change of paper size and orientation. Perhaps that's one of the things Novell is doing to integrate OOO with the desktop?

Ah, if this is what Novell is thinking, the developer might not really made good use of OOO. First, I take your "Page menu" as "Format menu -> Page Format" (there is no "Page" menu in writer). The size/orientation in page format is the *page size/orientation* but the size/orientation chosen on the print properties dialogue is the *paper size/orientation*. Why "page" is not exactly "paper"? The two are not the same in following situation 1) you wish to print a A4 page document on A3 paper, enlarging everything; 2) you wish to make a poster with 16 pieces of A4 paper; 3) ---> most commen situation: you wish to print a A5 booklet with A4 paper and later bind in the middle. If Novell people is thinking the size/orientation specified in Page Format dialogue (actually is defined as page style) can replace the size/orientation specified as Printer Property, then he never actually printed a booklet. No blaming to Novell people, because everybody can make mistake, just if I get the chance to know the person on the spot I'd like to suggest him/her print some booklets :) If he/she wish to remove this option from print dialogue, it's always good to first ask the OOO people why it is there ;)

Chuck Davis

PS Sorry about the duplicate post

On 6/6/06, Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote:

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Hello. I am a long time Gentoo user just turned to SuSE for office productivity, SuSE have most everything pre-configured and my work is actually around OOO even when I was using Gentoo, thus I consider SuSE more suitable for me.

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)?

Thank you!

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