I asked about this on the OpenOffice forum, but got exactly zero response. I've also realized that providing the multiple page/sheet feature this way is almost useless. I tried to do this in a 60 page document, not what anyone would consider a huge document, and selecting "Page Preview" brought up a progress bar that moved steadily for a few seconds and then froze, never completing. I tried letting this run for a few minutes (taking 50-60 % cpu the whole time) and finally killed it. I tried this a few times with the same result. I have no trouble printing pages this size from Firefox.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:41 PM, NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On 02/13/2009 03:19 PM, Gene Young wrote: > > NoOp wrote: > > >> OK. From F1 (Help): > >> > >> Printing Multiple Pages on One Sheet > >> In Page Preview mode, you have the option to print multiple pages on one > >> sheet. > >> 1.Choose File - Page Preview. > >> 2.Do one of the following: > >> To print two pages side by side on the same sheet, click the Page > >> Preview: Two Pages icon on the Page Preview bar. > >> To print multiple pages on the same sheet, click the Print options page > >> view icon on the Page Preview bar and set the options that you want. > >> 3.Click the Print page view icon . > >> > >> It works for me & I learned something in the process :-) > > > > > > Interestungly, I just tried a 4 up print from FireFox on a Win XP box. > > OK. I then tried the same thing in OO 3, same box. No problem. In > > both instances I was sending to a Kyocera MFP. I accessed the > > multi-page settings for both tests from the print dialog after selecting > > print from the file menu. In my situation the print driver is obviously > > handling everything. In the above scenario, the OO software appears to > > be handling at least some of the overhead. Now is it just a difference > > in the OS or is it in the printers (and emulation) being used? That > > answer is beyond my ability to provide. ;-) > > > > Yes, if I print from Windows I get the full windows driver dialog (Canon > MP750 for me) and can select the option from that driver. So, it appears > that there is some issue with the way that OOo (standard 3.0.1) is > handling the cups printer driver in linux. Looks like some further > digging is needed - I vote for David doing this since it's his thread :-) > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > >
