On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:30 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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? > ---- > 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 b I saidut > 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. > > CraigI I explained this all in the message you are responding to, You either accept what I said or you don't. But it is clear to me that the developers of openpffice are doing what I said they were doing. -- ======================================================================= All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
