Brochures & Landscape orientation

alebsack · Newbie Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

Hey guys,

I have a problem trying to print in a brochure format. My Page format is set to regular Portrait as the online help in OOo 2.0 tells me. When I go to print, the properties of my printer don't show an orientation setting! I need this so that I can print the pages side by side on one sheet. I've seen posts online that show this option there, but it doesn't seem to be on my installation (1.9.125, SuSE 9.3). Is this a known bug, or is there something I need to enable to get this option?

I'm using a CUPS server for printing, to a Laserjet 4 (this option actually doesn't show up for ANY printer).

Thanks,
Adam

AndrewZ · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:49 am Post subject:

Instead of Properties, try print Options (lower left hand corner). They're both in the Print Dialog.

alebsack · Newbie Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

There's no orientation option in there, either.

8daysaweek.co.uk · Super User Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2130 Location: UK

Hi alebsack,

Perhaps this will help:
http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19
Question

BFN

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AndrewZ · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject:

Orientation is in Page->Format.

Brochure is in File->Print->Options.

The dialog File->Print->Properties varies between printers and operating systems. It varies the most on Windows, but it also varies some on Linux/CUPS. The Printer Properties dialog is not a good place to adjust orientation: instead use Page->Format.

alebsack · Newbie Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

right, I understand that if you want the page to be landscape, you should do it under Format -> Page. However, I don't want the aspect ratio of the pages on the brochure to be landscape. I want them to be portrait.

The problem is that when I do Brochure printing, it prints out the two pages side by side, but on the paper it comes out as portrait as well... so I have two portrait pages next to each other, and the bottom half of the page is empty. I want to flip these two portait pages to be landscape on the paper to they fill the whole piece of paper... If you look at the online help in OOo, it tells you that you need to adjust the orientation in the Printer Properties to do this, not under Format -> Page.

I'm just missing the orientation section of the Printer Properties page.

AndrewZ · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:39 am Post subject:

JohnV · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:20 am Post subject:

You can print 2 portrait pages correctly on a landscape page but I don't know how to combine with brochure printing. Anyway here's what you do.
File > Page Preview. Click the icon with a hand (Print options page view), set Rows to 1, Columns to 2, adjust the margins, put the bullet in Landscape, OK out and click the Print icon next to the one with the hand.

dschaller · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:02 am Post subject:

I am having exactly the same problem as the original poster. When I upgraded last night to 1.9.129 all of a sudden the orientation option was gone in the print settings. For the work I do, I *need* a fix for this. I was successful printing brochures with 1.1.3 following the instructions in the help documentation. I will have to revert back to that version if I can't get this going. I'm not an expert, but I'm not convinced this is a printer driver problem as it seems I'm using the same driver I used before. If brochure printing is broken, this is a major bug. Is *anyone* having success printing brochure-style docs in 2.0?

crimperman · Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 2

dschaller · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject:

crimperman · Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 2

PastorEd

In previous versions (as recent as 1.9.104), if I wanted to print a booklet which would be printed front and back, 8.5 x 5.5 on letter paper, I simply had to prepare each page as a full-size 11x8.5 paper, and then select

File > Print > Properties > Orientation > Landscape

I could then select File > Print > Options > Brochure, and it would print each full-size page on half of the paper.

It would correctly number the pages, and print them like this:

8 1
2 7
6 3
4 5

So, when these pages were duplexed, they would stack perfectly for a printed booklet.

This function has DISAPPEARED.

The "File > Print > Properties" NO LONGER has an orientation selection.

That means that it is NO LONGER POSSIBLE to print booklets/brochures.

I'm bumping this thread just to remind someone that this function should be fixed. As soon as I can figure out how to submit an official bug report, I shall do so.

Thanks!
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JohnV · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:44 am Post subject:

PastorEd,

I know you have been using OOo for a while and I can tell you that Print > Properties > Orientation is available in Windows under version 2. I have not seen Spadmin mentioned in this thread. Is it posible that all the Linux users in this thread have failed to use it on this new version. I have not set up a Linux version for a long time and I am assuming the spadmin printer utility is still available and used, or usable, for version 2.

PastorEd · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:27 am Post subject: Thank you for the tip!