Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Page/Paper Size?

At 14:41 20/05/2014 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> I'm not much of an office suite guy, so please forgive me if I'm 
> trying to do something utterly stupid :)

I doubt that.

> Scenario: Just yesterday our Canon copier/printers were swapped out 
> for newer models.  (It didn't go as smoothly as was promised.)  Now 
> one of my users cannot print to 11x17 paper. That's on a Win7 box.

Was the correct printer driver for the new printer installed on each PC?

> As an experiment I created a simple "text" document with LO Writer, 
> then tried to get it to print to 11x17.  No matter what I did, the 
> page size kept going back to 8.5x11.  "File -> Print -> 
> Properties"  Change to 11x17.  Without doing anything else: Go back 
> to Properties: *Bang*, back to 8.5x11

You may be suffering from Worditis. Unlike Microsoft Office, which 
treats page size as a matter solely for printer settings, LibreOffice 
- more sensibly, in my opinion - treats page size as an aspect of 
page format. If you want to print a 11" x 17" page, you will first 
have to set the page to that size at Format | Page... | Page | Paper 
format | Format.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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