[lug] libre office question

[Alan Robertson]

That's what I've also done - and it's worked for me - but today my printer doesn't want to print anything - portrait, landscape or otherwise, so I didn't test it.

But I don't think you need to do it first...

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  Alan Robertson
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017, at 8:04 PM, David A. Merritt wrote:
> 
> Sorry to top-post.
> 
> Here is how I've done it:
> 
> Create new doc and, before adding any content, pull down
> menu item "Format", then "Page...", then "Page" tab.
> Select Orientation: Landscape, then "OK".
> 
> Then, pull down "File", then "Printer Settings...", Then
> "Properties...", then select "Paper" tab, then "Orientation"
> Landscape, then "OK".
> 
> At this point, my screen view is landscape and I add content,
> then send it to the printer (Pixma iP4000 ... yes, very old :o).
> 
> Works for me; hope it works for you.
> 
> -dam
> 
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Matt James wrote:
> 
> > I'm interested in this topic as well - was trying to help my wife with
> > LibreOffice on her Mac and had the same issue - could not for the life of
> > me figure out how to change the print orientation.  As already suggested as
> > a hack, I ended up running it out to a PDF and then rotating the print of
> > the PDF.  Shouldn't have to do that.....
> >
> > I'm thinking this might be a fight between the printer driver and LO?  or
> > is it a print subsystem fight with LO?
> >
> > In any case - I'm curious if someone has successfully found the check box
> > for this - possibly with a different print driver / subsystem / etc?
> >
> > FWIW - I have an HP CP1525nw
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:32:34 -0500
> >> Steve Litt wrote:
> >>
> >>> If you mean that the pickup rollers won't grab the 3x5 or 4x6 in
> >>> landscape mode, that's a mechanical problem you can't overcome without
> >>> manually feeding them in.
> >>
> >> It does seem like a mechanical feed problem. But this makes sense with
> >> the original intent of the question, as I understand it. 3x5 and 4x6 feed
> >> OK the long way, but not the short way, so we can conclude that under 5
> >> inches doesn't work. Therefore, the sought after fix is to be able to
> >> feed them the long way, with the printing still going along the long
> >> dimension. And, to do it all within LibreOffice.
> >>
> >> I still think a rotated text box would do it.
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