In the meantime I checked the impress document, whether it has the
optional DocumentSetting named "IsPrintHandout", which it has not.
Here's a list of available properties on the impress component,
iterating over xProps.getPropertySetInfo().getProperties():
TabStop: [1250]
BuildId: [320$9502]
RuntimeUID: [45]
MapUnit: [0]
CharLocale: [com.sun.star.lang.loc...@b1c5fa]
BasicLibraries: [com.sun.star.uno....@efd552]
ForbiddenCharacters: [com.sun.star.uno....@1abab88]
AutomaticControlFocus: [0]
ApplyFormDesignMode: [0]
VisibleArea: [com.sun.star.awt.rectan...@18a7efd]
DialogLibraries: [com.sun.star.uno....@1971afc]
HasValidSignatures: [0]
So supplying the property value "IsPrintHandout" to the
loadComponentFromURL() won't be honored, but also does not throw an
exception.
Again, trying to programmatically print a presentation as a handout with
two slides per handout page.
---rony
On 13.07.2010 19:52, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> Hello Ariel,
>
> On 13.07.2010 19:25, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
>
>> Hello Rony,
>>
>> On Tuesday 13 July 2010, 13:35, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Having an impress document, I would like to programmatically print out a
>>> presentation in form of handouts, with e.g. 2 slides per page. Tried the
>>> English print-dialog names as print options, but to no avail.
>>>
>>> How can one achieve that programmatically, what steps are needed, what
>>> PropertyValue can be supplied to control that ?
>>>
>>>
>> not sure if this helps, but
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Drawings/Printing_Drawing_Documents#Special_Print_Settings
>>
>> says
>>
>> "The printed drawing view (drawings, notes, handout pages, outline), the
>> print
>> quality (color, grayscale), the page options (tile, fit to page, brochure,
>> paper tray) and additional options (page name, date, time, hidden pages) can
>> all be controlled. Settings describes how these settings are used."
>>
>> where "Settings" is
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Drawings/Settings
>>
>> it looks like printing handouts is a property of the document's settings.
>> Look at the second table on that wiki page, which resumes
>> http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/presentation/DocumentSettings.html
>>
>>
> Thank you very much for your hints!
>
> The script that I have been trying to tidy up already opened
> (loadComponentFromurl) the impress component with a PropertyValue of
> ("IsPrintHandout", true), which had no visual effect on the displayed
> document.
>
> When printing that impress component I supplied PropertyValues to
> XPrintable.print() like
>
> * ("IsPrintHandout", true) and
> * ("SlidesPerPage" | "SlidesPerHandout", 2), where "2" was supplied
> as a String and then as a Short to no avail.
>
> If any of these PropertyValues were illegal, I cannot tell as no
> exception got thrown. All in all I permutated quite some time (and tried
> to google something related to this) in vain, before I turned to the list.
>
> It is like a little (?) puzzle...
> :)
>
> Again, thank you for your hints! (If you had any other ideas please let
> me know.)
>
> ---rony
