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larsenkc
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 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:10 am Post subject: margins |
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Some poor soul asked this question back in sept, & got no answer.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2501&highlight=margins
Where do I find the property for margins in a text document? If I have a frame, I can use the paragraph properties to set the margins, but that's for the distance from the text to the rectangle. It appears that a text document has a frame in which you type, but I want to set the distance from the edge of the page to that rectangle, not from the rectangle to the text inside.
DannyB, I know you're going to solve all my problems, I just wish you were up at all hours of the night! LOL :oP |
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DannyB
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larsenkc
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:02 am Post subject: margins |
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| Maybe of you tell me how for drawing documents, I can figure it out for writer documents? |
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Patrick
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| You go to format/page/page tab and there you will find where you can set the page margins. |
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DannyB
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| larsenkc wrote: | | Maybe of you tell me how for drawing documents, I can figure it out for writer documents? |
Okay. Here is how I change the margins on Drawings. I use these two routines from my (ever growing) library.
Each routine does two things:
1. Change the portrait / landscape setting so that OOo prints it rotated.
2. Changes the "margins" to match the new orientation.
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' Pass in any GenericDrawPage object in portrait orientation,
' and this changes it to Lanscape orientation.
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Sub SetDrawPageOrientationLandscape( oDrawPage As com.sun.star.drawing.GenericDrawPage )
' Save some settings
nOldWidth = oDrawPage.Width
nOldHeight = oDrawPage.Height
nOldBorderTop = oDrawPage.BorderTop
nOldBorderLeft = oDrawPage.BorderLeft
nOldBorderRight = oDrawPage.BorderRight
nOldBorderBottom = oDrawPage.BorderBottom
' Change so that it will PRINT in landscape
oDrawPage.Orientation = com.sun.star.view.PaperOrientation.LANDSCAPE
' Now change some paper dimensions to match
oDrawPage.Width = nOldHeight
oDrawPage.Height = nOldWidth
oDrawPage.BorderTop = nOldBorderRight
oDrawPage.BorderLeft = nOldBorderTop
oDrawPage.BorderRight = nOldBorderBottom
oDrawPage.BorderBottom = nOldBorderLeft
End Sub
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' Pass in any GenericDrawPage object in portrait orientation,
' and this changes it to Lanscape orientation.
'
Sub SetDrawPageOrientationPortrait( oDrawPage As com.sun.star.drawing.GenericDrawPage )
' Save some settings
nOldWidth = oDrawPage.Width
nOldHeight = oDrawPage.Height
nOldBorderTop = oDrawPage.BorderTop
nOldBorderLeft = oDrawPage.BorderLeft
nOldBorderRight = oDrawPage.BorderRight
nOldBorderBottom = oDrawPage.BorderBottom
' Change so that it will PRINT in landscape
oDrawPage.Orientation = com.sun.star.view.PaperOrientation.PORTRAIT
' Now change some paper dimensions to match
oDrawPage.Width = nOldHeight
oDrawPage.Height = nOldWidth
oDrawPage.BorderTop = nOldBorderLeft
oDrawPage.BorderLeft = nOldBorderBottom
oDrawPage.BorderRight = nOldBorderTop
oDrawPage.BorderBottom = nOldBorderRight
End Sub
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Unfortunantly, I don't think this will help you at all in changing the margins for Writer documents. (But I've been wrong before.)
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