Hi
Adding a section on how to change the page orientation, the method shown does this globally, how would I do this for a single page within a document so I get, for example
portrait
landscape
portrait
In LaTeX I would just use \begin{landscape} and \end{landscape} along side the lscape package.
Should be as easy to do this in Libreofice.
Thanks
Paul
Hi Paul,
Adding a section on how to change the page orientation, the method
shown does this globally, how would I do this for a single page within
a document so I get, for exampleportrait
portrait
landscape
portrait
You have to use a special template for landscape - like LaTeX does. But
be careful. All following pages will be landscape. You have to end this
with a hard pagebreak, where you define portrait (or your default
template) as the new template.
In LaTeX I would just use \begin{landscape} and \end{landscape} along
side the lscape package.Should be as easy to do this in Libreofice.
Its nearly the same. LaTeX would do this without a GUI. In LibreOffice
you have to search for the button, which will do this ...
Regards
Robert
It’s explained in either Chapter 6 or 7 (styles) in the Writer Guide.
Jean
Or possibly one of the other chapters.
select "Landscape" in the drop down list.
Then when you want to switch back to Portrait pages, follow the same
procedure, setting the page style that you want to follow Landscape.
jonathon
Ok, I got a 2nd page to go to landscape then following the same procedure to make page 3 portrait, I can't find the option for portrait
See attached
Regards
Paul
What page style were you using for the earlier portrait pages? Choose that
one. It’s quite likely to be Default Page Style. BTW, all the supplied page
styles are in portrait orientation except the Landscape style.
Jean
What page style were you using for the earlier portrait pages? Choose that
one. It’s quite likely to be Default Page Style. BTW, all the supplied page
styles are in portrait orientation except the Landscape style.Jean
I just opened a new document inserted a page that, using the method described is landscape, then wanted to change the next page back to test this out, so in terms of page style what ever comes with libreoffice 7.
Paul
That’s Default Page Style. You can see what style is in use in the Status
Bar at the bottom of the screen. I recommend that you read at least the
chapters on Styles & Templates and Writer in the Getting Started Guide to
learn some basics about the program.
Jean
Ok just had a quick look again, so page 1 is the default portrait, page2 of my test document is now landscape and page 3 is back to portrait, however I had to switch it to *default*.
So from a user perspective, if users are looking for portrait as they would find in say a print dialogue or even in the
format --> page --> page tab
then surely the dialog under
insert --> more breaks --> manual breaks, could easily say portrait in the list.
It may just make it easier, perhaps also in this have a option that takes you to the
format --> page dialogue.
May just help users out a little.
I feel am pretty good on things like this, so in a way (as with my adding things up in a table query) I tend to sometimes put a user with no knowledge / experience hat on and try and take that viewpoint.
I know that some users need things set out in such a way it is just obvious, so while I would normally go experimenting and looking round, they don't or won't do that, so they either give up or are scared if the press the wrong button they will mess things up.
Just a few ideas
Now that I know how to do this, I will make a video to illustrate as it is usually more useful than written explanations.
Paul