Bug filed on openoffice-writer 2.3.0 problem with Landscape Printing

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 16:24 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > > > > ----
> > > > > > I haven't seen it stated yet but there are print options that don't
> > > > > > consider page options and so I would think that it is a distinct
> > > > > > advantage to have the 'Format => Page' options separate from the 'Print
> > > > > > => Properties'
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > For example...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > If you want to print 4 page up on a single sheet of paper...you might
> > > > > > choose US Letter size in Landscape mode in Format => Page but choose to
> > > > > > print 4 of those per page in Landscape mode on Ledger size paper.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Craig
> > > > > > 
> > > > > I am sorry but what you are saying makes no sense. How exactly would you
> > > > > do what you are suggesting. How do you get OOwrite tp print anything 4
> > > > > per page in Landscape mode on Ledger paper?
> > > > ----
> > > > of course it doesn't make sense to you - that's why you filed the
> > > > bugzilla.
> > > > 
> > > > I suppose that if you have any curiosity, you'll figure it out and close
> > > > your bugzilla entry.
> > > > Craig
> > > Or you could stop being snippy and explain it to me. Just imagine if the answer to every
> > > question of the Fedora List was "if you have any curiosity, you'll
> > > figure it out"
> > ----
> > I think I gave you the recipe above - rather than test it out, you post
> > again. It wasn't intended to snippy beyond the obvious thought that you
> > could at least try it on your own.
> > 
> > In consideration that you don't understand the difference between page
> > layout and document format consider a 'Presentation' document with 20
> > slides. In your view, each slide would necessarily have to be on
> > separate pages.
> > 
> > If you choose 'Format => Page => US Letter / Landscape' and then in
> > Print => Properties choose to print 4 per page in Landscape mode, you
> > get 5 pages with 4 slides per page.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> In order to understand each other we have to be talking about the same
> thing. I was discussing File->Printer Setup -> Properties
> and you are discussing File->Print->Properties.
> 
> Nothing would stop you from choosing Landscape under either of these
> Properties tabs. Then you could go to File->Print-> Page Setup and
> choose 4 pages per page. Why should you have to go to Format-> Page at
> all?
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All I have on my desktop at the moment is FC6

Anyway, I am not certain why you would expect 

File => Printer Setup => Properties

to have anything to do with the current document formatting whatsoever.
Are you suggesting that this shouldn't be called Printer Setup but
rather Document Setup and thus duplicative of Format => Page?

Nothing you are going to say is going to change the fact that document
properties and printer properties are in the case of OpenOffice.org, two
entirely separate things. I appreciate that not all programs offer the
distinction but I would think that it inures to the flexibility of
openoffice.org and would prefer not to dumb it down because someone
doesn't get it.

Craig