Re: [libreoffice-users] Landscape & Portrait in same LO document

At 11:55 10/12/2014 -0700, Nobody Noname wrote:
> Using Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS AMD64 and LibreOffice 4.3.4.1. Trying to 
> print both a landscape and portrait page in a single Writer 
> document. Using Manual Section Breaks. When I get to the Landscape 
> page, it prints properly, but I cannot return to Portrait. I think 
> this is a bug.

It may be a bug - but probably in your technique with LibreOffice, 
not with the program itself.

Your term "manual section breaks" is a little confused. I don't see 
any automatic ones. In any case, in Writer you deal with sections: 
it's Microsoft Word that has section breaks (which it strangely calls 
"sections"). And I don't see how sections are related to page orientation.

Page orientation is a property of page styles, so you will need at 
least two page styles, one with each orientation, and two changes of 
page style, one at each change in orientation. The necessary changes 
of page style can happen in either of two ways. Where the change 
happens at a specific point in the text, it can be achieved by a 
manual page break and the use of the Style drop-down menu in the 
Insert Break dialogue. Where the change needs to happen in the 
ordinary flow of the text, wherever the move to a new page happens to 
occur, this can be achieved by setting the required following page 
style as the Next Style of the previous page style. Either technique 
could be used before or after your landscape page.

If you don't find this works as expected, you may have to explain a 
little, so someone can guess what you are doing wrong. Is it possible 
that you are seeing the change to landscape as something that should 
apply only to the following page? No: page styles (including the 
built-in Landscape page style) generally have themselves set as their 
Next Style, so later pages will continue with the same style (and 
therefore orientation) until a subsequent change of page style.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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