Landscape & Portriat in same LO document

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#1

Hi, Using Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS AMD64 and LibreOffice 4.3.4.1 Trying to print
both a landscape and portrait page in a single Writer document. Using
Manual Section Breaks. When I get to the Landscape page, it prints
properly, but I cannot return to Portrait. I think this is a bug.- CH

#2

Are you using Page styles for each of these types of pages?

Thanks,

#3

It may be a bug - but probably in your technique with LibreOffice, not with the program itself.

Your term "manual section breaks" is a little confused. I don't see any automatic ones. In any case, in Writer you deal with sections: it's Microsoft Word that has section breaks (which it strangely calls "sections"). And I don't see how sections are related to page orientation.

Page orientation is a property of page styles, so you will need at least two page styles, one with each orientation, and two changes of page style, one at each change in orientation. The necessary changes of page style can happen in either of two ways. Where the change happens at a specific point in the text, it can be achieved by a manual page break and the use of the Style drop-down menu in the Insert Break dialogue. Where the change needs to happen in the ordinary flow of the text, wherever the move to a new page happens to occur, this can be achieved by setting the required following page style as the Next Style of the previous page style. Either technique could be used before or after your landscape page.

If you don't find this works as expected, you may have to explain a little, so someone can guess what you are doing wrong. Is it possible that you are seeing the change to landscape as something that should apply only to the following page? No: page styles (including the built-in Landscape page style) generally have themselves set as their Next Style, so later pages will continue with the same style (and therefore orientation) until a subsequent change of page style.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#4

ok, Manual Break is the term in Writer (i.e. insert Manual Break). Print
Preview works perfectly, and I'm doing this correctly, it's not my
technique.

However, when I actually print, it doesnt revert. So, there's either a bug
in Writer, in CUPS, or in the Printer Driver. I'm thinking it's in Writer.

#5

Yes, page styles.

#6

Hi.
For me to get this to work I have to change the device to postscript.

device

I don't know if it is a bug in LO or Cups or the OS.
Steve

#7

Hi Cement :slight_smile:

I'm also using 64 bit Ubuntu but the 14.04 flavor, and have experienced the
same issue with [printed] output successfully changing from Portrait to
Landscape, but not reverting back to Portrait when I tell it, although
displaying correctly on both the editor and on print preview. And, to be
more specific, it recently occurred on a document created about a year ago
and never modified since, so I know it isn't me or my technique.

The question is whether - as you suggested - the problem was with Writer or
CUPS. I too suspect the problem lies with Writer (or perhaps LO as a whole),
since:

a) All my other apps print correctly, and

b) Through several recent versions of LO, there have been other strange
problems with printing - the most annoying (to me, anyway) of which is with
double-sided printing: sometimes I request double-sided and it prints single
sided, and sometimes I ask for single-sided and need to wait while the paper
is flipped over before being ejected. Picky, I guess, but although there may
be some odd interaction with CUPS (I have no idea whether these behaviors
occur on Windows as I finally just dumped that completely), I agree that
something in LO likely changed somewhere in the era of 4.2 or 4.3.

So hang in there - you're not nuts.

Frank

#8

What printer are you using and is the driver setup? CUPS-PDF only gives me Portrait printouts, as far as I have seen with Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and Linux Mint for the same "era".

For my printers, I use the drivers set to the "highest level" of Postscript - PS level 3 - which I was told to use and which fixed a lot of issues.

Of course, the switching between portrait to landscape and back to portrait within the same document might have printer driver issues, since that does not happen very often [in my point of view]. So it could be the printer and its driver[s].

To be honest, have you tried using a Windows machine and see if it work that way? If it does, then that might mean it is the Linux printer driver setup.