2016-10-30 18:56 GMT+01:00 Ken Springer <[email protected]>: > On 10/29/16 8:04 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: > >> On 10/29/2016 06:52 PM, gordon cooper wrote: >> >>> Hi again Ken, >>> There is some odd going on here. I don't use LO >>> very >>> often, most of my writing is done with Lyx, which then outputs as a >>> PDF and I print from there. Have just looked at LO and found that >>> when it was asked to print, to either my little Brother laser,or an >>> elderly HP Deskjet, the landscape paper option was greyed out, >>> just like yours. These results came on a desktop, running MX-15 >>> Linux. Looked as if LO was deciding that the files would fit onto >>> portrait and not giving me the option to change. >>> >>> I'll do some more digging. Think I have LO on a laptop with XP, >>> will dig it out .Perhaps somebody else will pop upon the forum >>> with an answer. >>> >>> Gordon >>> >>> >>> This was brought out in an earlier thread. Go to Print -> options tab >> and check "Use only paper size from printer preferences." >> >> That should enable paper sizes and orientation selection in the print >> dialog. >> > > It does not. :-( > > However, I discovered I can go to the printer's defaults, and set > landscape there, choose the "Use only..." setting in LO, and I get the > landscape layout when the spreadsheet is printed. > > What I'm taking away from this is, it is a problem with LO 5.0.x that > comes with Mint 17.3 Rosa. > > So I still need to go somewhere to find out how I install the current > version after I have it downloaded. > > Thanks for the help and suggestions, everyone. > > > -- > Ken > Mac OS X 10.11.6 > Firefox 49.0.1 > Thunderbird 45.3.0 > "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash > and it's gone!"
Ken, instructions for upgrading Linux Mint 17.3 to Linux Mint 18 - if that's what you're after - are found here : https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2316. They worked very well for me.... Henri -- 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
