Good mailmerge, well done mailmerge... Errr, not quite

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#1

very strange indeed.

       Could you attempt again, first checking all the settings to be sure
they are what you desire them to be;
            if it happens yet again, then maybe it's time to report yet
another bug.

       From the one still using 3.4, awaiting a bug-free LO edition before
up-dating :wink:

#2

Err, what settings do you mean?
I tried this twice. Both times only the first sheet was landscape,
all the others were portrait, which is the layout of the Writer merge
document. What settings should I check?

It's a mailmerge of a single address sheet with a query that holds
(at the moment) 223 rows.

This is LO 4.1.4.2 under Fedora 19 x86_64

Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...

#3

Doh!

I meant, of course, "only the first sheet was *portrait* all the
others were, correctly, *landscape*".

Regards
Mark

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
In Writer you can set the first page to have different formatting from
the rest of the "book" so that it could be a title page or cover or
something. In Calc i suspect you can set each work-sheet to be
different. I think that is what Anne-ology is alluding to. I'm not
clear about all that myself. This guide might help or might just be
worth skimming through anyway

Errr, i think it's just the chapter 3 about Styles
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Getting_Started_with_LibreOffice

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

I think that is what Anne-ology is alluding to.

Ah, ok, I didn't know that, thanks.

However, the situation is that if I save the output of the mailmerge directly as a pdf (good
LO, I didn't know that was a possibility) I get this behaviour, whereas if I save the exact
same mailmerge output as an odt document and then save *that* as a pdf, all the pages are,
correctly, landscape.

It is a single page document that I mailmerge from, tho' I s'pose that could still have a
"first page" options set. However, the fact that there is a difference between the two
different save strategies, surely, indicates a bug. Doncha think?

Sounds like no-one else has come across this behaviour though.

Regards
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...

#6

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