Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24982
When Handout view selected, printing still does 1 slide per page.
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:43:26 UTC
Open Office 1.1.0 - Did as cgu suggested in bug 13656. Expected result: 6 slides per page on printout. Actual result: 1 slide per page in printout. I tried all kinds of workarounds. Microsoft Office performs this beahavior correctly and this will cause issues for people migrating over from it.
Just in case you don't want to go look in bug 13656, let me show an excerpt: > ------- Additional comments from cgu Mon Apr 28 04:47:46 -0800 2003 ------- > > - change to the handoutview (View/Master View/Handout View) > - open the 'Modify Layout' dialog (Format/Modify Layout) > - now you can choose the numbers of slides on the page. I chose 6 slides per page. Expected result: 6 slides per page printout. Actual result: 1 slide per page printout.
Reassigned to Christian.
I can't reproduce the bug. Do you select Handout in the printer options? (File/Print/Options)
Ok, I see it now. That is not something that's very easy for a new user of your Presentation Software to figure out. The printout should follow from the view. If you have Master > Handout as your view, the printout should appear identical to what you see on the screen, or at least something more obvious should be presented.
I think this is a nice Impress featur. Use the current view as preselection in the 'File/Print' dialog. Maybe with a button 'Use current view / Use options settings' What do you think? Please have a look.
The problem is, that the "printing as handouts" has to be set in the printing options dialog. This is not intuitive. When in handout view, printing should automatically be as handout.
I believe your issue may be fixed with: Issue 85355 - Enhance handout printing in impress - available in the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please consider testing this new release and report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary. Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
Although this is 1.5 years old, the issue is still present in latest OOo 3.2.0 (Build 9479), at least on MacOSX. The selected layout in the handout view has no effect on the actual printout. OOo always prints 6 slides on one pages, either as 2x3 (rows x columns) or 3x2, depending on the page orientation selected in the format -> page menu (note: I am guessing the English menu and option titles, as I am using the German language version). The OOo handbook (accessible via the help menu) suggests to change the number of slides in the printer settings dialog. While I can choose between slides, notes, handouts etc, this dialog has *no* control to enter the number of slides per handout page. According to the documentation, it should have one. The documentation at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Impress_Guide/Creating_handouts also shows a control to set the number of slides, which does not exist in OOo 3.2.0 on MacOSX. As result, on MacOSX, it is impossible to print any other handout layouts except 2x3 or 3x2 slides per page. There is a related (German) discussion here http://de.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=88176 without solution If you need further information, or if I should tryout something, let me know.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".