At 16:31 21/04/2008 +0100, Ike Dawson wrote:
I'm using OO 2.4 on a 3GHz Dell, 1 Gb Ram and 160 Gb HDD with 75% +
free, Eudora, Win XP SP2 upto date
I received a Word 2003 document consisting of a two column wide
variable text table. It came as an attachment which I copied as a
*.DOC file to HDD then edited the *.DOC file in Writer very
successfully. I saved it as an *.ODT leaving the edit open on screen.
The Print Preview was normal, but when I tried Print All, only the
right hand pages printed on both the Inkjet HP895CXi and the HP Laserjet 4.
I saved the edited version from screen again this time to a USB
stick as a Word 97 document.
I plugged the stick into an old Win98 machine, opened the document
in Word 97, and having changed absolutely nothing, selected Print
All to the same Inkjet printer, and it printed beautifully ... all of it.
I closed the doc on the stick, and again I changed nothing. I just
plugged the USB stick back into the Dell XP, opened the same file
directly from the stick in Writer, selected Print All and once again
it printed right hand pages only.
This isn't the first time I've had difficulty with printing from
Writer 2.4: regularly I have to insert a blank page as page one of
a document to created and printed in *.ODT to get it to print.
Can anyone please suggest where I might be going wrong and what I might try?
Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print | Pages. Do
you have "Right pages" ticked but "Left pages" not ticked? If so,
add the tick and all should be well. Note that this is the same
options panel as you can reach on the fly during printing by
selecting Options... from the Print dialogue.
This setting affects your use of Writer, of course - not the document
itself. So you would expect the same document to print correctly in
another instance of suitable software, whether it be Writer or Word -
just as you have discovered.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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