Re: [libreoffice-users] writer: business cards w/ tables - duplicate cells

At 22:16 19/11/2011 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
> At 07:59 PM 11/19/2011, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 18:24 19/11/2011 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
> > > That blank second page is inserted by LibreWriter for some unknown 
> > > reason.  After you have generated the business card, press Ctrl P 
> > > to bring up the print menu.  Select the LibreOffice Writer tab and 
> > > unselect "Print automatically inserted blank pages".
> >
> > Sorry, but that's not going to help in this case.  The 
> > "automatically inserted blank pages" referred to are those created 
> > when pages have been numbered and in order to ensure that 
> > odd-numbered pages are always rectos and even-numbered pages always 
> > versos.  This blank page is different, being the result of an 
> > additional, empty paragraph after the end of a table which 
> > completely fills the first page.  The document is merely ever so 
> > slightly longer than a single page.
> >
> > But you can, of course, just as easily choose, in the print 
> > dialogue, to print only page 1.
>
> I don't believe that is always the case.  I just used the label 
> format to create a set of 422 labels for specimens in a museum using 
> a spreadsheet which contained all of the label data and LibreOffice 
> Base.  There were 39 pages of labels and the program inserted a 
> blank page between each page of labels.  There were no page numbers.

Sorry, but you have misunderstood what I said.  You have constructed 
a document which contains many blank pages that you did not want.  Of 
course you can do this, and I didn't suggest otherwise.  But those 
are not the blank pages referred to in the "Print automatically 
inserted blank pages" option - and deselecting that option will not 
help you by suppressing those pages.  The special blank pages 
referred to are not shown in the normal editing view, so you may not 
even be aware they are there.  But they do appear in Page Preview, 
with a large grey legend "blank page" (which doesn't print, of 
course).  Your genuine blank pages will show in editing view and also 
in Page Preview, but without the legend.

> Since the museum required a special size label - one that did not 
> match any of the templates, I used the closest size template and 
> then changed the label dimensions and margins to suit our needs. 
> Saved it as a custom template. We did not use actual labels, but 
> printed white on black (margins included) on heavy stock and then 
> cut the sheets apart to the proper size.

It sounds as if you have (sensibly) used tables, as did the original 
questioner, and left empty paragraphs between each full-page 
table.  In fact, although you cannot remove the trailing empty 
paragraph after the final table (and therefore need to suppress it in 
one of the ways I described), you can, in fact, remove the unwanted 
paragraphs between the tables.  So there was no need to retain all 
those intervening blank pages in your document.

Brian Barker


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