Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 42484
N-up printing loses first page of document
Last modified: 2005-03-04 13:28:38 UTC
When printing a multi-page document to a file postscript is generated that is incompatible with both n-up printing on CUPS and reformating with mpage. I printed a 5-page document to a file with the page size set to a4, then tried to print it with -o number-up=2 (I also tried 4) on CUPS. In each case the first page came out completely white, the rest of the document was OK. Experimenting with piping the file through mpage -4 to ggv produced the same result, although the missing page was briefly displayed full size, not scaled down. I had a look at the postscript, and discovered that by commenting out this line: <</PageSize [595 842] /ImagingBBox null>> setpagedevice I could get the missing page to appear. I will attempt to attach the document. I am running Fedora Core 1, fully patched up to date. I have seen a similar problem with OOo 1.1.3 on Core 3.
Created attachment 22436 [details] WP doc which prints incorrectly on CUPS/mpage
reassigned to HI.
HI->JA: Please take a look.
I can confirm this bug. I'm using OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 I think this is general problem, not only for the writer. the same happens if I print out some impress files. I did not tested other components.
JA->PL: please have a look at this
Please us page preview in OOo to produce n-up printouts. The reason for this is that mpage and other programs cannot cope with the paper format being set for each page instead of once; this is necessary for OOo since documents can contain multiple page sizes. duplicate to issue 34384 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 34384 ***
closing duplicate