"NoOp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Found the problem. From my original post:
>
>  > Tools/Options/OO Writer/Print
[..]
> Note the Pages "All checked" settings.
>
> Pages - all checked includes:
> - Left pages
> - Right pages
> - Reversed
> - Brochure
>
> The problem was that "Brochure" was checked. I unchecked the "Brochure"
> option, and the documents prints fine now. This caused OOo Writer to
> think that it was printing a brochure. The settings are saved with the
> document, so that would also explain why when I sent the doc to someone
> else they experienced the same printing problem.
>
> To test I resent the newly saved document with the unchecked "Brochure"
> setting to the other person and had him print it from his system again
> -- it printed correctly.
>  So then I guess the only question remaining is: when I exported it
> directly as a PDF why didn't it export it in the "Brochure" format, and
> instead exported and printed it as a standard 8.5x11 Letter formated
> document?

Glad you found the problem. To answer your question, the PDF generation is 
an export process and does not use the printing options that come up when 
you do File|Print. Whether that is a good thing, is no doubt debatable!

-- 
Bob Long



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