[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 36568] MAILMERGE - printing inserted field values from spreadsheet as data source causes blank pages to be included in output

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--- Comment #11 from Jorge E. Gómez  2012-03-07 07:19:50 PST 
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Rainer,

Thanks for looking into this. You're correct, I confirmed an unexpected result,
that may not be a bug.

If I take the step you outlined (turning off the "Print automatically inserted
empty pages" option), I get the expected result (for instance a 3-page PDF
file).

I agree with your conclusion. I see that "Print automatically inserted empty
pages" is enabled under Settings > LO Writer > Print.

However, I found nothing in the page format settings for the original form
letter (which is basically an unformatted page) to indicate that it was a
"right" or "left" page (thus justifying the empty inserted pages). Maybe I'm
not clear on the reasoning behind inserting the empty pages in this case.

Thanks again,

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 36568] MAILMERGE - printing inserted field values from spreadsheet as data source causes blank pages to be included in output

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Rainer Bielefeld  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|REOPENED|NEEDINFO
Version|LibO 3.5.0 Release  |LibO 3.3.1 release

--- Comment #10 from Rainer Bielefeld  
2012-03-06 22:56:27 PST ---


Insertion of empty pages is intended behavior, the question is whether
suppression of empty pages works or not (or may be something else I did not
understand in the comments)?

I believe I found a problem.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download test kit
2. Open sample text document
3. In Menu 'tools -> Options -> Writer -> Print' uncheck "Print automatically 
   inserted blank pages" if necessary
3. Menu 'File -> Printer Settings ->  Options' uncheck 
   "Print automatically inserted blank pages" if necessary 
> If you now do Menu 'File -> Print -> Tab WRITER' you will see 
  "Print automatically inserted blank pages" unchecked. 
4. Menu 'Tools -> Mail Merge Wizard - Use this document' 
5. Select "Letter"  
6. Select the sample address sheet in same folder if necessary  
7. Uncheck 'This document should contain salutation' if necessary,  
8. In step 6 click through recipients, should be 3,  
   > You see print of 3 documents
9. In Step 7 click 'Edit individual document'
   > document with inserted address data for 3 recipients appears, document
shows 5 pages, only odd page number pages shown
10. Menu 'File -> Printer Settings -> Options' You should see "Print 
automatically inserted blank pages" unchecked.

11. Return to Mail Merge Wizard, 
12. Select 'Print merged documents -> Print documents'
Expected: 3 pages printed without blank pages
Actual: as expected

But: It seems that result in step 10 "unchecked" is not always sure, with a new
document I saw a checkmark there, and so blank pages were printed. Merged
result should respect settings of source document, this option should be
unchecked after having passed steps before.

My conclusion
-
New bug Title "In Step 7 document settings  "Print automatically inserted blank
pages" selected unexpectedly.


@Jorge E. Gómez
Only for the sake of correctness: you see that you reproduced an effect that
you do not understand, but you did not reproduce a bug? If you want to prove
that it's a bug you have to cite Help, a manual, a general technical rule or
similar what is broken by LibO

@all:
can you confirm my results and reduce the problem to that unexpected setting in
my step 10?

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 36568] MAILMERGE - printing inserted field values from spreadsheet as data source causes blank pages to be included in output

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--- Comment #9 from Jorge E. Gómez  2012-03-06 18:16:07 PST 
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Created attachment 58092
  --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=58092
Incorrect result of mail merge, with empty even pages

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 36568] MAILMERGE - printing inserted field values from spreadsheet as data source causes blank pages to be included in output

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--- Comment #8 from Jorge E. Gómez  2012-03-06 18:14:57 PST 
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Created attachment 58091
  --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=58091
Very simple form letter with static text and two fields: name and message

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 36568] MAILMERGE - printing inserted field values from spreadsheet as data source causes blank pages to be included in output

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--- Comment #7 from Jorge E. Gómez  2012-03-06 18:14:11 PST 
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Created attachment 58090
  --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=58090
Very simple spreadsheet with three records of name/message

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[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 36568] MAILMERGE - printing inserted field values from spreadsheet as data source causes blank pages to be included in output

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Version|LibO 3.4.0 release  |LibO 3.5.0 Release

--- Comment #6 from Jorge E. Gómez  2012-03-06 18:13:21 PST 
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I can confirm this bug on LibreOffice 3.5.0.

Steps to reproduce:

Create an empty spreadsheet, with two columns, labeled Name and Message.
Fill three (3) sample rows and save the spreadsheet.
Create an empty text document, with some sample text.
Go through the Mailmerge wizard, add the spreadsheet as data source.
Edit the document, and insert fields from the data source.
Save the merged document as a single document.

Expected results:

A document with 3 pages, one for each record.

Result:

A document with 5 pages (filled odd pages and empty even pages).

Attached:
Sample spreadsheet.
Sample form letter.
Sample combined letters.

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