Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Brochure printing doesn't scale to page

On 11/24/2016 06:09 AM, CVAlkan wrote:
> Perhaps slightly off-topic, but I'd love to hear what other regular visitors
> to this forum think:
>
> Paper Sizes and printing in LibreOffice is such a puzzle to me when I do
> anything other than single-sided straight documents (which I don't do often)
> that my regular practice is to always export to pdf (which has worked very
> well for some time now) and print from the Acrobat Reader (which still works
> in Linux in spite of what you hear). As usual, I learned some more from
> Brian Barker's reply.

Are you having issues with double-sided printing?  I had problems with 
an Epson Workforce printer that no one could figure out. Later, when the 
next version[s] of Ubuntu came out, the problem was fixed.  The Epson 
drivers did not "play well" with that older version of Linux.  Around 
that same time Linux Mint would not see my networked printers - wireless 
or wired.  Since the Ubuntu version I was running on my main desktop saw 
those printers.

That type of issues with LO not able to get the printer to duplex 
stumped everyone.

> Whenever I open up the forum and see Brian's name, I immediately go to such
> postings first, as his explanations are almost always clear and informative,
> and often cover techniques not mentioned at all in Help (poor) or the
> documentation (well done, but incomplete or at least not-comprehensive).
>
> So my question is: who all thinks that Brian should gather up all his past
> postings and edit them into a collection of "LibreOffice Tips and Tricks"
> organized by subject - perhaps even limited to just Writer and/or Calc (or
> two separate docs). I imagine many folks would pay a reasonable fee for such
> a book (this would not be competition for Bruce Byfield's "Designing with
> LibreOffice" book, but complementary).
>
> Any thoughts, anyone?
Yes

There is always a need for better and better help documentation. The key 
is getting and keeping the help instructions in a language that the 
basic, new, non-technical, users can understand.  I been working with 
computers since before the first PC desktops came out. I saw all of the 
changes that made the computers go from refrigerator size to pocket sized.

Sometimes I cannot understand the help instructions I read here. Now 
that I survived a 3rd small stroke, it is getting even harder.

For me I do not use even a tenth of what Writer does, and use even less 
for Calc. Impress and Base are not used, or very rarely.

So. . . . having the help files, like the books, would be a good idea to 
have them separated by LO module.  We have a "getting started guide[s]" 
and then books dedicated to one module.

Having a FAQ help book based on what worked here, would be great.  A lot 
of work, but great.
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