Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

Spencer,
    The document in question is a set of the By-Laws of an Odd Fellow 
Lodge that I happen to have been Secretary of for 19 years, now. I've 
had it since January, 2002, when as Lodge Secretary, I was named Clerk 
of the Committee tasked with 'revising & updating the Lodge's By-Laws.
    I originally had it as a WordPerfect document (& I had a Star 
Office document version when I came upon and tried that for a while) - I 
changed over to Ubuntu Linux (Breezy) in 2006 & proceeded to migrate all 
my document folder contents to it & they've been in Ubuntu program files 
ever since.
    Odd, but i was not that fond of Star Office - but when i got to 
using Ubuntu, i took right to OOo, which came out of Star Office, as I 
understand it. Switched to Libre Office a bout a year ago 7 this is 
really the first problem I've had with it.

    The parts that don't print are all full paragraphs --- but I can 
not find any reason for their not printing in either printer settings 
nor in any LO settings that I have been able to find.
    No, i haven't rebooted -- if I were still running MS Windows, that 
would have been my first choice - but so far that has never been a 
necessity with Linux, thankfully. I will give it a try - though, if only 
to eliminate it as something needed.
    I have most of my documents in standard open document format 
[whatever LO defaults to, at the time] - I do make MS Word compatible  ' 
.doc' copies, though - so if I need to e-mail to others i don't get a 
whiney reply back that your document was unreadable.
    I guess it would also be a good idea to convert to PDF, as well -- 
that might be a solution, or, at least a problem revealer.
    Thank you for your suggestions & I'll be trying them out & perhaps 
I'll be inspired to search further to see if I've 'gained' some strange 
setting somewhere or other...
George


On 01/23/2012 01:48 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
>       What part doesn't print?  If it's always at the end, check the 
> print setting to make sure it's set to print all pages.
>
>
>       If that does not seem to be the problem, have you rebooted?  I 
> would not expect this to change much, but it might.
>
>
>       Did you try exporting it in various formats, then reimporting 
> it?  If you've had it for several years, it's probably more likely in 
> *.doc than any other format.  Have you tried exporting it as RTF and 
> OpenOffice format plus text?
>
>
>       Do you still get the problem exporting it as text, reimporting 
> then printing it?  If you still get the problem, you must have some 
> funny control characters that get exported with the text.  There are 
> tools to scan for characters that are NOT vanilla ascii, but I'm not 
> familiar with them.  Once you can get the text to print as you want, 
> you need to restore formatting and anything else in the original 
> file.  I'd delete all the text that does not print plus a bit more, 
> verify that everything retained prints, then add back the text deleted 
> from the *.txt version.  If that does not work, then I'd work from the 
> *.txt version and add all the formatting, etc., a part at a time, 
> saving intermediate files until you get what you want.
>
>
>       "Binary search" techniques could speed this work, potentially:  
> If you have one version that has the problem and another version that 
> doesn't, then identify the differences and systematically try a 
> version roughly half way between one that works and one that doesn't 
> until you fix the problem.
>
>
>       Hope this helps.
>       Spencer
>
>
> On 1/23/2012 10:25 AM, George E Noon wrote:
> > Harold,
> >     Thanks for your reply.
> >     When I copied & pasted the page in question, the result was 
> > unchanged; all was visible on-screen, but the 2 last paragraphs did 
> > not print. In those 2 paragraphs, I am unable to find any setting 
> > which would account for their 'going invisible'...
> >     As to the Help "changes">"review function" -- that does not seem 
> > to have any join to what my problem is, in fact it only refers to 
> > spreadsheets.
> >     I see that you are in London -- not that that, or where my dad's 
> > family comes from has a thing to do with anything, but I'll toss it 
> > in anyway; my dad's father was from the village of Arnold in 
> > Nottinghamshire UK & came to the USA on the Lucitania (sister ship to 
> > the ill-fated Lusitania), on its last voyage across the Atlantic 
> > before WWI. I had an Uncle Harry Noone, from Notts, who was a Crown 
> > Chauffeur [I may have the term wrong, but he drove for the 
> > Government], had been Master of two different Masonic Lodges there, 
> > and spent his final days as a resident of the Masonic Home in York
> >     Any way, thanks for your attempts to help - small world & 
> > seemingly smaller, daily & if we are not helping one another, thing 
> > would really look bleak.
> > George
> >
> >
> > On 01/23/2012 04:51 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> > > "George E Noon" <ge.noon@verizon.net> wrote in message 
> > > news:4F1D0CA7.90304@verizon.net...
> > > > Hello,
> > > >         Seems I've found a new & especially annoying problem.
> > > >         A document I've had on disk for several years & have 
> > > > printed without problems before, has now come to the point where 
> > > > some paragraphs do not print at all - although they appear 
> > > > on-screen OK & I can find no formatting or other setting difference 
> > > > between the text which prints & that which does not, except that 
> > > > one does & the other does not print.
> > > >         I really do not wish to have to completely re-enter the 
> > > > entire document, all over again (& hope that whatever caused the 
> > > > non-print problem does not occur again, anyway).
> > > >         Does any one have any thoughts as to a possible cause -- I 
> > > > will investigate all angles I'm able to do.
> > > >         Thanks for your assistance.
> > > > George E Noon
> > >
> > > What happens if you copy/paste one of the offending paragraphs into 
> > > a new and otherwise empty Writer document and then print that? Does 
> > > that give you any clues?
> > >
> > > Are the offending paragraphs the result of tracked changes (Reviews) 
> > > which have been suppressed/rejected?
> > > See the Help under "changes">"review function" - at least that's 
> > > where it is in OpenOffice; I don't have LO on this system.

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