On 11 March 2010 10:31, WANG, Xiaoyun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Brian Barker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > At 10:28 11/03/2010 +0800, WANG, Xiaoyun wrote: > >> > >> I have a Draw file with several pages of landscape orientation. Now I > want > >> to insert a page of portrait orientation, but so far I'm not able to do > so. > >> If I insert a blank page and change the orientation to portrait, then > all > >> other pages will be changed to portrait as well. I was trying to create > a > >> new style and format for the page but I can not find page orientation > >> options in the configuration panel of Styles and Formatting. Is this > kind of > >> action supported in Draw, or do I miss something? > >> > >> Environment: OpenOffice 3.2, Windows XP. > > > > Do you actually need to change the page orientation? Since the elements > you > > can use in Draw can generally themselves be rotated, you may be able to > > create the page you need with its contents rotated within the existing > > landscape orientation. Once you have printed the document, you need only > > rotate one sheet of paper! > > > > I trust this helps. > > > > Brian Barker > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > Hi, Brian, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I included a picture into the Draw document. The picture is a mindmap > exported from Freemind, so a 90 degree rotation makes it hardly > readable in electronic version. That's why I want to find a way to > change orientation of the page. > > I'm doing some work at very early stage. I use Draw to compose some > diagrams based on premature ideas and deliver the document in pdf > format directly from Draw, so that it's accessible to other people > without OpenOffice. > > Finally, the official documents will be composed in Writer and Impress > or their MS equivalents and the orientation is easier to tweak. > However, at the point, all I'm doing is sketching in Draw. > > -- > WANG, Xiaoyun > Shanghai, China > > If you copy/paste your document into a Writer document then you can create a separate "page style" for the mindmap and specify its format (landscape/portrait) to be different from the format of the other pages. See the Help in Writer under "page formats">"changing individual pages" for details. Having done that you can then export the document to PDF.
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