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? -- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ Does your mail provider give you FREE antivirus protection? Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
