Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Barbara Duprey wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:20 08/03/2009 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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OOo automatically forces odds and evens to right and left. No need
for the user to do anything. Indeed, users cannot overcome this
arrangement, This enforced right and left can cause problems in
printing double-sided if there are any automatically inserted
blank pages, as noted above.
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Thanks for this info, Jean. What seems to have happened to Joe was
that the blank pages were not automatically inserted, he had to add
one manually. I tried a test document where I reset page number 4
to page number 1 (with page style Default), and no blank page 4 was
generated, so the print would not have worked for duplex. (Left got
only page 2, right got 1, 3, and 1.) What exactly governs whether
Writer generates the blank pages?
I'm not Jean, but I think it depends only on the setting at Tools |
Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print | Other | Print
automatically inserted blank pages (also reachable on the fly at
File | Print... | Options... | Other | Print automatically inserted
blank pages). With this ticked, you get the blank page; without it,
you don't. Either way, the same pages are treated as left and right.
I think the point of this setting is that you will want it ticked if
you are actually intending to print double-sided (whether you
achieve this manually or automatically) and not ticked - to avoid a
pointless totally blank sheet - if you are printing single-sided.
Brian Barker
I don't think that's it, because I have that option checked and did
not get the automatic insertion. I thought it might have to do with
using the Left and Right page styles, or maybe something about
options on page breaks and/or heading definitions.
Brian: thanks for pointing out that setting, which I had forgotten about.
Actually, I mentioned that setting in my first note responding to Joe
:-) (thought it might be his problem, but it was the missing "blank"
page).
Barbara: Did you actually print the document or view it in book layout
(using the View layout choices in the status bar or in Page Preview)?
You won't see an automatically-inserted blank page on screen in the
usual single-page editing view, but you will see it in the other views.
I printed it, with the result that I got page 2, then 1, 3, 1. There was
also a truly blank page (no footer), but I think that was a double-sheet
feed error on my printer. I threw the file away, but I could recreate
it if you'd like me to follow this up.
I need to add something specific about double-sided printing to the
Writer Guide. I thought it was there, but I can't find it.
Sounds like a plan! That'll be great. I guess there's a degree of
printer dependency in it, so it won't be the easiest thing to describe,
but it will certainly be useful information.
This list is great for picking up errors and omissions in the docs!
Sure is -- there's almost always somebody who trips over anything like
that. Unfortunately, we're not always good about filing issues!
--Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
Co-Lead, Documentation Project
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