To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48302 Issue #:|48302 Summary:|Printing Handouts of Presentations is not Consistent |with Help Instructions Component:|Presentation Version:|680m95 Platform:|PC URL:| OS/Version:|Windows XP Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|DEFECT Priority:|P3 Subcomponent:|printing Assigned to:|wg Reported by:|vreid47362
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 27 16:37:57 -0700 2005 ------- I recently had lots of trouble printing handouts of an OpenOffice Presentation. The help screen for printing handouts states the following in 680m95 "Printing slides as a handout You can print several slides on a single page of paper. 1.Choose View - Handout Page. 2.Click Print File Directly in the Standard Bar." This is no where close to the method that is required to print actual handouts. I looked at issue 47534, and the moderator stated that printing was working so that the bug finder's issue with printing handouts could only be seen as an enhancement request. I believe that statement by the moderator should be re-evalutated. The inconsistency between the method listed in the documentation to print handouts and the actual steps involved is a defect, if not in the presentation module, then in the documentation or the printing modules. Furthermore, printing handouts should be a straightforward task. Instead, here are the steps required on my Windows XP SP2 machine with 680m95 to print handouts. 1. Click the Handout Tab in the main Impress work area 2. Select the layout style for the handouts from the selections in the Layout tab on the far right 3. Click File 4. Click Print 5. Click Options 6. Select Handouts 7. Unselect Drawing (or else I get both Handouts and the Actual Slides -- very annoying) 8. Click OK -- This takes me back to the main printer screen 9. At this point, if I select OK, I will get a set of handouts for the entire presentation 10. If I want to just print some of them, I have to enter the page numbers of the slides that I wish to print on the printer screen. As you can see, this procedure is no where close to the instructions listed in the help contents. In addition, the actual procedure required to print handouts is down-right discouraging. Remember, a presentation program, like Impress, is one of the most used features of an office suite in the business world. As such, Impress really needs to be a slick program and easy to use in order to continue to woo Microsoft Office users and others to the OpenOffice camp. The difficulty of printing handouts will scare people away from OpenOffice. The trouble with printing handouts should be a show stopper for finalizing OpenOffice version 2.0 until resolved. Please do one or more of the following before the release of 2.0 1. Change the actual printing procedure so that it works as easily as the help says that printing handouts should work. This is the preferred solution. It shouldn't take 9 or 10 steps to print handouts. None of the competition's presentation modules make printing handouts that hard. 2. Change the documentation in the help screens to reflect the true nature of the steps required to print handouts in Impress. 3. Explicitly define what each of the options are in the printer screen somewhere easily accessible in the help documentation. Thanks, Vaughn L. Reid III P.S. I'm attaching the document that I used to test printing handouts. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
