Rick Bilonick wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:47 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Monday, December 18, 2006 1:56 PM [GMT+1=CET], Rick Bilonick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm using OOo 2.02 on a 64-bit Athlon system running FC5. Now I've
noticed that in page preview, it shows a total of 239 pages even
though in regular mode for editing it shows a total of 238 pages. It
seems that the page numbering changes every time I open the file.
Without adding or deleting any material, the total no. of pages jumps
around from 237 to 239. I notice when I hit page preview, it says it
is repaginating at the bottom of the window. Should I always do a
page preview before saving? When is it necessary to do an "update
all" under the Tools menu? I just tried an update and the total
number of pages changed to 236. I scrolled to look at the pages and
now the total is reported as 239. Scrolled again now it shows 240 and
looking at the last page it says 240. Now page preview says 240 also.
I don't understand how just scrolling without making any changes,
changes the pagination. I don't understand why the page numbering
keeps changing without changing the document.
Rick
It shouldn't matter but do you from time to time use different page
sizes in different applications? Or different printers with different
margin requirements? In other words, is the [effective] page size being
changed "underneath" OOo which then OOo notices and repaginates your
document to fit?
I have seen this with MS Word in the past but never got to the bottom of
it. In those cases I was *not* using different [effective] page sizes.
Otherwise, stumped.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
I'm not printing at all and I'm not changing printer drivers. I update
all the indexes so that the Table of Contents, and all other tables of
figures etc. are correct. I save this. There is a certain number of
total pages, say 237. Then I export to a PDF. When you export to a PDF,
it says at the bottom that it is repaginating (why, I don't know). When
it does this it typically inserts blank pages at different places
One place I have see this is where page styles change. Luckily for me,
the page numbering (1,2 ......) starts after the blank page is inserted.
Also, I used a different page style for the index of tables/figures as
well as TOC.
so
that the total page count is larger than 237. Thus the pdf is created
with all the indexes WRONG. I can't believe no one else has seen this.
This happens on two different linux computers, one running FC5 (OOo
2.02) and the other running FC6 (OOo 2.04). I cannot get the PDF to be
created without screwing up the indexes. This means that all the
automatic features using fields for table of contents etc. are virtually
useless. I need as the final output a pdf.
Try "print to file" and then try converting that file from ps to pdf
using the utility ps2pdf.
I have no idea why this odd behavior occurs. I have used frames a lot
(I've inserted each figure, table, and listing into it's own frame and
captioned the frame - it makes it easier to move things around. Could
the use a frames be the problem?) I have some very wide tables on
landscape pages. It seems to want to insert pages before the landscape
pages (but not just there at other places too).
I'm beginning to think that OOo is not really useable - at least not for
large documents.
For large documents most average editors will have some problem or the
other. LaTex would be the BEST bet ..... ofcource if you can live with
its quirks.
-G
Rick B.
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