Re: [libreoffice-users] Page count does not match visible pages

At 08:39 11/02/2013 +0800, Conly Honly Donly wrote:
> 2013/02/10 10:42 PM, Brian Barker:
> > At 21:36 10/02/2013 +0800, Conly Honly Donly wrote:
> > > I think I have found a bug.
> >
> > I'm not so sure.
> >
> > > This potential bug may affect printing, e.g. producing blank pages 
> > > because the page count does not look correct.
> >
> > In double-sided printing, odd-numbered pages need to be rectos, or 
> > right-hand pages, and even ones versos, or left-hand pages. Your 
> > second page is numbered "1", so LibreOffice expects to print it on 
> > the front of a second leaf, not on the reverse of the first leaf. 
> > So you have three pages: the first page, the blank reverse, and 
> > your second page, numbered "1". Go to File | Page Preview to see 
> > the extra page.
> >
> > If you want to print single-sided, go to Tools | Options... | 
> > LibreOffice Writer | Print | Other, and remove the tick from "Print 
> > automatically inserted blank pages". Then you won't get a blank 
> > sheet. You can make the same selection on the fly through the 
> > Options... button in the Print dialogue.
>
> I have tried: (both checking and unchecking)
>
> Tools | Options... | LibreOffice Writer | Print | Other | "Print 
> automatically inserted blank pages"
>
> The page count still appears as 3/3. It seems that this option is 
> not relevant, I am afraid.

Sorry, but you misunderstand me. What I am saying is that everything 
you see is by design, and will not be seen as a bug: Writer still 
sees three pages, even if you choose to print only two of these.

> Consider File -> Export as PDF. In both cases, only two pages are 
> visible in each PDF file.

That's because the same option is controlled separately for exporting 
to PDF. The PDF Options dialogue, which you see when you use File | 
Export as PDF..., has, at the foot of the General tab, a separate 
"Export automatically inserted blank pages" tick box. Yours must 
currently be unticked. Writer thinks that if you print that exported 
PDF document double-sided, you will need that extra page - to ensure 
that your second significant page prints on the front of the second 
sheet, not on the reverse of the first.

I suppose that there is no simple answer to this which takes account 
of both single- and double-sided printing in an intuitive 
fashion.  But there's no bug, I think.

Brian Barker


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