On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > Please reply *only* to [email protected] >
Hi, Harold, Thanks for the reply. I know the way to do it in Writer. I'm just a bit lazy at the current moment hoping Draw can handle everything. It's no fun to do copy/paste every now and then from Draw to Writer when my doodles are kept being modified everyday. So you think it's not possible to change single page orientation in Draw currently, right? -- WANG, Xiaoyun Shanghai, China --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
