Issue 64914 - Quick suggestion about a Shrink-to-One-Page option
Summary: Quick suggestion about a Shrink-to-One-Page option
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.2
Hardware: All All
: P5 (lowest) Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2006-04-30 05:24 UTC by jasonrochon
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:32 UTC (History)
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Description jasonrochon 2006-04-30 05:24:47 UTC 
I was having trouble resizing my text and borders for documents in Writer to fit
effectively without an extra half page.

I had come across a program called 'ResumeMaker' that has an option called
"Shrink to one page."

Is there an option for this or can I submit a suggestion for a plugin.

Thanks everyone.

JCR
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-05-02 11:12:22 UTC 
Reassigned to requirments.
Comment 2 bobthehamster 2008-09-23 19:00:29 UTC 
I know what Jason is asking for here. The "Shrink to Fit" feature is very
important for short letters a memos, and its absence from OpenOffice.org Writer
is one of the blockers preventing my employer from migrating from MS Office to OOo.

Here is the usage case:

You write a short memo. It overflows to a second page just slightly, maybe by
one or two lines.

In Microsoft Office (and presumable also this "ResumeMaker" that Jason
mentioned) you go to "Print Preview" and you will find a button labeled "Shrink
to Fit"

The shrink to fit button reduces the font sizes in the document until the total
page count has been reduced by 1.

A Macro that simulates this feature in OOo Writer has been written by Ian
Laurenson, and can be found at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
under the heading ShrinkToFit.sxw

Unfortunately my first attempt to test Ian's macro has failed, but I might be
doing something wrong.