Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58990
Add Tile Printing "Overlap" Option
Last modified: 2005-12-07 06:18:52 UTC
Enhancement request. This is a suggestion that comes from me and my user base for OpenOffice Draw: We use OO Draw to create signs, maps, diagrams, and banners (and many other things too). One of the features that we enjoyed in CorelDraw was the ability to tile print with overlapping areas on each printed page. What we would like to see is an option in file->print->options->page options, when "tile pages" is selected, called "overlap" with a value. The value would be the amount of length that each page should overlap the other pages. This overlap would greatly simplify taping together multiple pages when making large, multi-page printouts. OO Draw currently cannot print any overlap, so you have to cut and tape each page exactly at the margins and lining up areas is very difficult. And if the cuts are not perfect, you actually lose valuable parts of the printed document. An overlap of 1/2 to 1 inch of repeated printing from page to page would make assembling such tiled pages much much easier. A bonus would be if OpenOffice Draw would also tell the user exactly how many printed pages would result before printing started so as not to waste paper/ink/time if there was a mistake.
Exact same issue reported twice *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 58989 ***
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