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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 13 23:05:56 +0000 2007 ------- This is a serious issue... and still confusing and irritating my users in version 2.3, almost two years after "joesny" first reported it. Under no case should blank pages be added to a merge document, unless the user has specifically requested it... and there are no such options in any merge dialog. Starting a new page with each record makes perfect sense, but not adding blank pages. If I open a saved, merged document that was a one page form merged with three records, I expect three pages. Instead, I get content, blank, content, blank, content. That is FIVE pages. When I click on the first page, the page indicator says "Page 1/5" when I then click on the only other next page I can find, it says "Page 1 3/5"!! So something is also trying to hide the blank pages, making them extremely difficult to remove or even see, and messing up the page indicator too. They are visible, however, if you do a page preview of the document. I don't see how this really has anything to do with duplex as has been suggested in other comments. In our case, no printer or printer settings are ever set to duplex before or after merging a document. If this problem was created with duplex in mind, then the document should have been 6 pages in the above example, not 5. And, although this is probably not the appropriate location for the comment- there should be a THIRD option in the UI for the merge dialog, "create and open new document". It should be unnecessary to "print" the document to a file, then turn around and manually open the document to look at it. Simply open up a new window with the new, merged document in it. And that should be set as the default option- not printing, not saving to a single file, not saving to multiple files. If you check user behavior- I bet 90%+ of people will want to look at what they merged to make sure it is correct, before printing it. Currently, this means always having to save it out, then having to open it back up again. And this blank page bug is validation as to why users want and need to look at the document before printing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
