On 10/30/2016 10:56 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
Yes, you must select landscape in LO (Format -> Page) to format the document/page and you must select landscape in the print dialog to select the printer paper size/orientation. If you don't then you get the symptoms you described in your OP. This is not a bug. It makes good sense.On 10/29/16 8:04 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:On 10/29/2016 06:52 PM, gordon cooper wrote:Hi again Ken, There is some odd going on here. I don't use LO very often, most of my writing is done with Lyx, which then outputs as a PDF and I print from there. Have just looked at LO and found that when it was asked to print, to either my little Brother laser,or an elderly HP Deskjet, the landscape paper option was greyed out, just like yours. These results came on a desktop, running MX-15 Linux. Looked as if LO was deciding that the files would fit onto portrait and not giving me the option to change. I'll do some more digging. Think I have LO on a laptop with XP, will dig it out .Perhaps somebody else will pop upon the forum with an answer. GordonThis was brought out in an earlier thread. Go to Print -> options tab and check "Use only paper size from printer preferences." That should enable paper sizes and orientation selection in the print dialog.It does not. :-(However, I discovered I can go to the printer's defaults, and set landscape there, choose the "Use only..." setting in LO, and I get the landscape layout when the spreadsheet is printed.What I'm taking away from this is, it is a problem with LO 5.0.x that comes with Mint 17.3 Rosa.So I still need to go somewhere to find out how I install the current version after I have it downloaded.Thanks for the help and suggestions, everyone.
The grayed out paper size/orientation in the print dialog I responded to, is a separate issue brought up by Gordon and seemed to have started with LO 5.x. Don't know about 4.x. LO 3.x did not exhibit this "feature" AFAIK. OpenOffice 4.x does not exhibit this either, but then it is a different beast now.
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