Please vote for enhancement of Print dialog in Impress http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49691
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] handout printout > > Andis wrote: > > When you preparing to print, chose handout view (Tab menu > above slide) > > and in then in Layouts bar chose appropriate handout view > (4, 2 or 6 > > pages). You can also change handout view, in spite it isn't > vary good > > implemented. > > I can't see anything wrong with it. It works for me ??? > > Then press File - Print... and in Print menu press Options. > > Check Handout in Options menu and uncheck others, if you don't need > > them, press OK and print Handouts. > > Thank you Andis - I have it now. > > I can see that the printer options button allows a whole > array of printouts to be done at once and that is very > powerful. However I don't think it suits a beginner. I am > reasonably competent and willing to learn but I'm not a > massive user of presentation software so it doesn't suit me > either. I know I will forget to switch the print option to > whatever I want printed. In fact, even if I lived in > presentation mode I'm still capable of forgetting and > printing the wrong format. > > To make it more user friendly, may I suggest that you adjust > the software so that printer options (behind the scenes) > switch to Handout printing alone if Handout is displayed > on-screen. Likewise, it could switch to Outline or Normal > depending on what is showing. > > That need not prevent users from clicking the [Options] > button and selecting whatever more powerful combinations they > want. You could also offer a check-box on the options dialog > to retain the selected settings no matter which display > format was showing - ie., current behaviour - although it > would be nice to remind the user what is going to be printed > if it isn't the format displayed. > > My view is that a beginner is your most important user. I > have been trying to get people to begin using OO for years. > In my reasonably wide experience, beginners are reluctant to > join a mailing list for support and instead just throw up > their hands and go back to what they are used to. I have even > had people tell their boss they will resign if they are > forced to use OO ie., learn something new. > > Please accept my thanks for helping me. > > Regards > > Mike > > > > > > Andis > > > > Mike Dewhirst wrote: > >> I'm very happy with OpenOffice. Thank you. > >> > >> I cannot figure out how to print out four slides to a page. I can > >> display them four to a page by just clicking on the appropriate > >> layout control. That isn't the problem. > >> > >> When I try to print, it always comes out one slide per page. > >> > >> Is there a trick to it? > >> > >> Thank you > >> > >> Mike > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > >> additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
