File :: Printer Settings can now change document settings

pluby

One annoyance for many NeoOffice users has been that changing the orientation or paper size settings in the File :: Printer Settings menu did nothing and these settings could only be set using the Format :: Page menu.

Well I have finally figured out how to force changes in the File :: Printer Settings menu to update the settings that are displayed in the Format :: Page menu.

This new feature is available in the following test patch. If people can test it out and make sure that it does not break NeoOffice, we can include this feature in the NeoOffice 2.2.3 release.

One thing to note that is that while changes in the File :: Printer Settings menu will update the settings in the Format :: Page menu, the reverse still will not work. Specifically, due to the way that NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code works, updating settings in the Format :: Page menu will not show up in the File :: Printer Settings menu.

You can test this new feature by installing the following test patch:

PowerPC:
http://jane.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.2.2-Patch-11-Test-2-PowerPC.dmg

Intel:
http://jane.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.2.2-Patch-11-Test-2-Intel.dmg

Patrick

jgd · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:31 am Post subject:

I was able to set Orientation in Printer Settings with no problem.

I noticed an issue with the Scale setting. I tried with a 2 pages document. If you set the Scale to 100% or less than 100%, that works fine. If you try to scale to more than 100% , you still get two pages, with the beginning of the document on the first page and the end on the second page. You loose the middle of the document. That doesn't occur in TextEdit where I got a 3 pages file.

Jacqueline

pluby · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:52 am Post subject:

The scaling feature in NeoOffice is much more limited than in Apple applications like TextEdit and Safari. Since the Format :: Page option has no scaling attribute, there is no OOo attribute that I can specify for this so scaling has no affect on OOo pagination.

What should happen is that the same number of pages will get printed regardless of the scaling factor used and each page will be scaled from the top-left corner of the content. So, if you specify scaling greater than 100%, content enlarge and push off the right and bottom sides of the content.

Patrick

jgd · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:03 am Post subject:

OK. Thanks. Also an OpenOffice.org feature Smile

Jacqueline

Samwise · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

While comparing Patch 11 Test 2 to Patch 11 before closing bug 2937, I discovered a small issue with this new feature.

Changing the paper orientation in Format > Page, and clicking OK, makes the document "dirty" (NeoOffice recognizes that a change has been made, and lets you save the document).

When changing paper orientation in File > Printer Settings…, on the other hand, this doesn't happen (thus, if you close and re-open the document, the paper orientation is reset to what it was before). If you change the paper orientation in File > Printer Settings…, go to Format > Page and click OK, then the document becomes dirty and NeoOffice lets you save.

Would it be possible, when changing paper orientation in File > Printer Settings…, to notify NeoOffice of the change directly (so that the document can be saved without having to make additional changes first)?

pluby · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: