Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 7984
Cannot mix page orientations
Last modified: 2008-05-17 23:51:06 UTC
It is _very_ normal to mid landscape and portrait pages in one document. I can find no way to do it in OOO 1.0.1, W32 or Linux implimentations. There are 'page styles' - a thundering good idea - and the format, page menu. But no matter what I do, how I select a page, even put it in different "sections" I cannot mix orientations. If I select landscape in "page format" it changes the whole document. If I create a page style with landscape selected, and apply it on one page, it changes the whole document. in the help for 'creating landscape' it says: ..... 6.Make the necessary changes to this style as compared with the current style. In this example you should go to the Page tab, under Paper format select Landscape orientation, and click OK. Now you have a new Page Style in landscape format, which you can apply to selected pages. I can't make it work. I'e followed the help file to the letter - manual break- page break - style landscape - and when I apply it the whole document changes, not just the following pages. I've made this a '2' because this makes it a "bad word processor" - there are classes of document it can't do, and it doesn't match the "help"
Hi, to have different orientations you need to use different page styles in your document. As you already read the right way to do it is to insert manual page breaks that change the page style used for the following pages. (The same setting can be found in format/paragraph/text flow.) - create a new text document - insert some text and then insert a manual page break that uses the page style "First page" - change the orientation of the page style "First page" to landscape
Fair enough. I cannot see why it did not work for me when I raised the issue. I think there is a usability issue here. Do I take it that the page style is an integral part of the break and cannot be applied afterwards? Other styles (character, cell, numbering, paragraph) can be applied by selecting an existing object and applying a style. I think I was trying to follow the same thing. Perhaps attempts to apply a page style other than when a manual break is inserted should produce either a warning dialogue or the opportunity to insert both the page style and the break?
ja: changed version to OOo1.1 changed platform to all changed owner to bh set status to confirmed -> new i think this is just an enhancement for the office enhancement wishlist: set pageformating for single pages to the dialog Format -> Page or popup a choice if applying a page style to allow inserting of a pagebreak with the given style automaticaly for the current page
Just downloaded version 1.1, and I still can't make it do what I want. Oh, adding a new page in either landscape or portrait works fine, and all subsequent pages are in that form. But I can't manage to change the orientation - or the page style and hence orientation - of an existing page in the middle of a document. Maybe I'm not managing to select the right thing, but I can't fangle it.
Put the cursor in the first paragraph that should be on the new orientation and choose Format|Pragraph On the tab "Textflow" choose [x] break (o) before [x] with page-style "your page-style" Do the same thing for the paragraph that you want to have in your regular layout (choose your default style). The steps above is the same as choosing Insert|Manual break (o) page break [x] with style "your style" (this function will set the same options) If you know that you will not have two pages with the new style directly after each other (e.g. there's always at least one standard page inbetween two landscape ones) you can also set the "next style" field in your landscape page-style to your default page - you then don't have to set the format back to default. If you can tell that sections beginning with text that is formatted with the paragraph-style "xy" you can set the above mentioned options in the paragraph style "xy" so you don't have to insert a hard-formatted break.
I've been following your advice: >cursor...first paragraph.....Format|Pragraph and it works. But I still think that in the longer run there is a usability issue - the idea of selecting page orientation by going format-paragraph is not obvious, and I have had to keep your note on my desktop to remind me how to do it. Also having to make the change in two places in order to affect just one page is sub-optimal, and not very swish. The word "clumsy" springs to mind.
There does seem to be a problem with the ergonomics of page orientation: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4410 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8413 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7757 polus various other one-message threads
It's still causing problems: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4410 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11904
It has to be said that this is no easier to understand in version 2
Hi, Page orientation is a matter of page-styles as well. So you can choose Insert|Manual break and in that window choose the page style (you've just created) with landscape. Works VERF (very easy, reliable and fast).
*** Issue 17975 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
As far as I think, I can see 3 levels where a page style could be applied : - the page : apply the page style on ONE page - the selection : all the pages in the selection are modified - all the document BTW, when going to format > page..., if you do modifications, it should be possible to select to which level you can apply the modification (page, selection, all document). Then when the user validates, automatic page styles should be created using the modified settings to keep a "clean" document.
Closing as works for me. I see various suggestions for other behaviour in this issue. Pls feel free to discuss those on the lists, and/or create a new clear issue for each.
The Issue you raised has been marked as 'Resolved' and not updated within the last 1 year+. I am therefore setting this issue to 'Verified' as the first step towards Closing it. If you feel this is incorrect, please re-open the issue and add any comments. Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
As per previous posting: Verified -> Closed. A Closed Issue is a Happy Issue (TM). Regards, Andrew