https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90954
Bug ID: 90954
Summary: PRINTING: uncontrolled page format changes when
printing bi-folded brochure
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32)
OS: Mac OS X (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
OS: OSX 10.10.3
LibreOffice: Version: 4.3.7.2
Build ID: 8a35821d8636a03b8bf4e15b48f59794652c68ba
Printer: Epson Workforce WH-7610 (A3 format)
When creating a document in A4, it is impossible to print this as a brochure in
A3 format, which ought to be easy.
1 - Usability: to unearth the "brochure" setting in the OSX print dialog is a
titanic effort in itself.
2 - Usability: logically, the idea of creating a document in portrait A4 and
then printing on landscape A3 should almost be offered as a default as it
involves no scaling - an option "print on larger paper" does not exist which
leads to the bug below. However, the "brochure" tick box seems to be
disinclined to have its work made easy...
3 - Usability: When choosing "Brochure", the printer "two sided" mode is
nowhere to be seen. This may be due to the way OSX and the Epson printer
driver interact, but exposing duplex printing inside LO would be a Good Thing
for tree-saving reasons. It appears to be a natural default for brochure work
(if available).
4 - Bug: When selecting A3 format paper in the printer driver, LibreOffice
somehow picks this up and abandons the A4 format settings of the document under
edit. If it picked up this change correctly and scale, all would be well, but
no such luck - the resulting brochure mode printout ends up with a page format
that appears to be letter on printout, so you end up with an A3 sheet with two
pages per side offset to the side.
Summary: there is no possible route to write a brochure as a regular document
and turn it unchanged (keeping page numbers, footers etc) into a brochure by
using a the brochure mode with paper twice the size.
Actually, as an interim fix there is, if one is willing to go near Adobe
software:
1 - export to PDF
2 - open it in Adobe Reader and print it in brochure mode from there :(
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