At 22:01 14/01/2015 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
You should not have to change any setup on the printer. The printer
should print whatever the software sends it.
Oh, if only life were so simple!
Printers vary greatly in how they deal with whatever is sent to them.
How does your printer deal with non-standard paper sizes? What if the
actual paper is a different size from the document? If you enter
paper sideways - e.g. with envelopes - which side does your printer
think is "up"? And more ...
The problem is in the software.
Not necessarily. OpenOffice (and LibreOffice) separate the document
size and orientation from the printer settings, which idea some will
think is sensible. (I'm one.) Your alternative product may not do
this. Indeed, I suspect that the questioner's problem may arise from
a mismatch between the document dimensions and the printer settings.
He may, for example, have a document with postcard-sized landscape
pages but be printing these on card stock with perhaps two, three, or
four cards formed in an A4 (or "Letter") portrait sheet. The images
may need to print on the cards in either orientation. If the printer
settings are wrong, I'd be slow to accuse the software.
If you have the version of OO that worked, I would suggest you
remove the present version and install the old one.
It's pretty unlikely, I suggest, that this is something that has been
broken in an OpenOffice upgrade. The questioner said he had been
"using OpenOffice for quite some time now" and said nothing about any upgrade.
I can't help you with OO or LO--I have abandoned them because they
are too complicated ...
I wish someone would tell the devs that the old saw is correct: If
you play with something long enough you'll break it!
Perhaps your decision that OpenOffice must be the problem is based on
your existing opinion of the product? It may just be that your
prejudice is showing here. I wouldn't want you to lead astray other
readers of this list.
Brian Barker
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