thanks. It got worse now... the new version of LO crashes on loading, looks like I'm going to go clean everything up, and then maybe go back to a prior version, so in the process, I should be creating new config files as well.
*Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen <http://viz.me/vliscony/t/7>* *About Me <http://about.me/vliscony>* On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster < [email protected]> wrote: > On 12/28/2014 07:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Rogier F. van Vlissingen wrote: >> >>> Most of the time when printing from LO, I get multiple copies, and I have >>> to manually abort printing. >>> >>> At one point I thought it might be a printer problem, but it does not >>> happen when I print from Adobe Reader or other applications, only from LO >>> >>> Does anyone have any insight??? >>> >> >> All I can think is to check that the number of copies is set to 1 when >> printing. That may sound obvious, but there are two places it can be set, >> which might catch you out. After going to File > Print, click the General >> tab and select the required printer. Then: >> 1. Make sure "Number of copies" on the dialog itself is set to "1". >> 2. Click "Properties...". This brings up the printer-specific properties, >> where there is also usually an option to set a number of copies (check all >> the tabs - it varies by printer). >> Set any other options as needed, and click OK to print as usual. >> >> These two settings operate separately... In the past, I've ended up with >> 9 copies instead of 3, when I set LibreOffice to print 3 copies and set the >> printer properties to print 3 copies (thinking changing the option in >> LibreOffice should have updated that option for the printer). It turns out >> that makes LibreOffice send 3 copies to the printer, which then prints >> those 3 copies 3 times! >> >> Mark. >> >> >> > I wonder if you have a glitch in your config file[s] that define printing > with LibreOffice. I do not remember the document location, but if you > close LO and save the config file[s] location to a new name, then open LO > again, LO will build a new set of configuration data. > > I had this issue a few years where LO was stuck on printing pages as if I > set it to print 4 pages per sheet and then defined it so only one quarter > of the page is printed and the rest of the sheet is left blank. I could > not get the settings to take hold so it would print properly. When I had > LO recreate a fresh configuration the problem was fixed. > > To be honest, I have had this happen a few times, but not in the past year > or so. This method was the easiest way for me to fix the printer > issue/glitch that happened. Also, LO was not the only package that has > done this, but at least I did not have to remove and reinstall the whole > package to get the printer problems fixed. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
