[libreoffice-users] Re: setting paper size

Thanks, Heinrich it helps to know the same problem exists on different OSs. 

Here's what I've found on Vista: If I export to PDF and then reset the
printer settings from my PDF reader (Foxit), I can print at any desired page
size. It's a work-around, and doesn't solve the problem of printing directly
from the ODF file. I find the same behavior in selecting text color (see the
thread "changing text color." Do these behaviors represent an underlying
bug? Would it be worth my reporting it?


Heinrich Stoellinger wrote
> Hi again,
> I use LO under Linux (Debian-Wheezy as well as Mint-Nadia). There you can
> specify
> PDF/Postscript and other printing destinations under "Device" in the
> printing
> dialog. PDF is the default. Unfortunately things like landscape printing
> don't
> work properly then. Setting it to Postscript Level 2 works fine, however.
> In older
> versions I knew how to change that default in some config-file, but don't
> know how
> to do so under LO 4.0-rc2 in Linux.
> Regards
> H.S.
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:19:13 +0100, edo1 <

> edagro12@

> > wrote:
>
> > I'll be damned - I don't know where to set "Device" in vista, but taking
> > your
> > hint, instead of "Export as PDF" I chose "Export." With that I saw that
> > the
> > file format was defaulted to .xml. I changed this to pdf, and lo! Though
> > the
> > chosen foreground color doesn't show in the odt. file, it does show in
> > the
> > pdf. The color toolbar is indeed buggy, no?
> >
> >
> > Heinrich Stoellinger wrote
> > > Hi,
> > > Did you set the "Device" to PostScript? PDF printing is "buggy" in my
> > > opinion.
> > > Regards
> > > H.S.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:20:37 +0100, edo1 <
> >
> > > edagro12@
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm using  LO on Vistax64, printing on a Canon IP2600.
> > > >
> > > > I can't change the paper size successfully when printing from LO. When
> > > > trying to print on half-sheets (5.5x8.5 stock), I can set the printer
> > > > settings OK, but when I click on Print the LO shows the requested text
> > > > printed at  the top left of a full 8.6x11 sheet; and
> > > > the printer's pre-print display follows that instead of the settings it
> > > > had
> > > > accepted from me..
> > > >
> > > > (By exporting  the LO file to the PDF file I finally was able to print
> > > > to
> > > > the half size sheets, but it require my setting the printer to "fit to
> > > > page
> > > > printing," which I didn't have to bother with in the last Oracle
> > > > version.
> > > > OOo 3.2.0.)
> > > >
> > > > The LO user guide was no help. Any advice would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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