Issue 58989

Summary: Add Tile Printing "Overlap" Option
Product: Draw Reporter: crxssi <crxssi>
Component: printingAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: UNCONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Description crxssi 2005-12-06 21:20:40 UTC
Enhancement request.  This is a suggestion that comes from me and my user
base for OpenOffice Draw:

We use OO Draw to create signs, maps, diagrams, and banners (and many other
things too).  One of the features that we enjoyed in CorelDraw was the ability
to tile print with overlapping areas on each printed page.

What we would like to see is an option in file->print->options->page options,
when "tile pages" is selected, called "overlap" with a value.  The value would
be the amount of length that each page should overlap the other pages.  This
overlap would greatly simplify taping together multiple pages when making large,
multi-page printouts.

OO Draw currently cannot print any overlap, so you have to cut and tape each
page exactly at the margins and lining up areas is very difficult.  And if the
cuts are not perfect, you actually lose valuable parts of the printed document.

An overlap of 1/2 to 1 inch of repeated printing from page to page would make
assembling such tiled pages much much easier.  A bonus would be if OpenOffice
Draw would also tell the user exactly how many printed pages would result before
printing started so as not to waste paper/ink/time if there was a mistake.
Comment 1 aziem 2005-12-07 06:18:34 UTC
*** Issue 58990 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 2 wolframgarten 2005-12-07 08:20:44 UTC
Reassigned.
Comment 3 crxssi 2005-12-07 23:27:41 UTC
Sorry about the duplicate.  I think I must have gone "back" in the browser and
then was distracted and later thought I hadn't submitted it!