Thank you for your replay. My O.S. is WinXP PRO sp2. Furthermore I am experiencing this issue with OO2.3 Writer Setting the default units to centimeters the dimensions of A3 page show up correctly Thank you again and have a nice day
Giampaolo P.S.: Since I did not konw the immages can not show in the mailing list, I put here the links to show them. set to mm - http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8783/openofficea3pageformatmib7.png set to cm - http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2684/openofficea3pageformatclz5.png ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Travers To: users@openoffice.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]A3 page format In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/10/2007, Giampaloc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > *I am using version 2.3.0 of OpenOffice.org. * > > *My problem is :* > > *Using the OpenOffice suite I noticed that the height dimension is wrong > > when I format the page A3. * > > *I know that the dimensions of A3 page are H 420 mm and L 297 mm , but > > when I format the page of my document to A3 the eight shown in the > > height filed is 300 mm instead (see the attachment). If I click the OK > > button, the page shown in the main windows is 300x297 mm.* > > *Is this a bug of program or a limit in page dimension? May be, do I have > > to set some option?* > > *Thanking you for your kind attention, I send you my best regards.* > > ** > > *Giampaolo* > > > What Operating System are you using? > I'm running OO 2.2 on Win XP Pro. If I format a page as A3 its dimensions > show up correctly as 420 x 297. So either it's a problem new to OO 2.3 that > wasn't in 2.2 or, which I think is more likely, some problem with your > printer driver. What happens if you tell your *printer* to use A3? This does appear to be a problem with OO 2.3. When working in millimetres it isn't possible to set a page height greater than 300mm, and setting page size to A3 produces a 300x296.99mm page. The workaround is to set default units to centimetres or points which do allow you to set a full A3 page. R -- Richard Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Truro, Cornwall -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.9/1090 - Release Date: 24/10/2007 8.48
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