[plug] OO PRESENTATION

[Jim Householder]

Sometimes the printer's driver will provide for 2-up and 4-up
printing, independent of the application used.

HTH
Jim


---- Original Message ----
From: billk at iinet.net.au
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] OO PRESENTATION
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:59:50 +0900

>OO sucks big time at this.  With later versions (2.x) it can be made
>to
>work, but you get some small images and huge borders and no notes
>area -
>looks wimpy.
>
>In order to get a similar slick product to what PPT produces I had to
>add a slide after every page containing the notes lines etc, then
>print
>it as a postscript file (one slide per page).  I then fed it through
>a
>script below to arrange it correctly on a sheet (6 per page) and
>create
>a pdf for it.
>_____________
>#!/bin/bash
>
>pstops -d
>'6:0L at .33(20.75cm,2cm)+1L at 0.33(10.65cm,2cm)+2L at .33(20.75cm,10.5cm)+3L
>@0.33(10.65cm,10.5cm)+4L at .33(20.75cm,19cm)+5L at 0.33(10.65cm,19cm)' $1
>a0.ps
>pstops '1:0U(21.6cm,28cm)' a0.ps a1.ps
>rm a0.ps
>mv a1.ps $1
>ps2pdf $1
>echo done!
>_____________
>
>Worked well, except some graphics took forever to print compared to
>doze
>- I suspect its the printer drivers rather than OO related.
>
>
>On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 14:28 +0900, Alex Polglaze wrote:
>> G'day All,
>> 
>> Using OO Presentation and wanting to print all the slides as a
>Handout. 
>> There are 13 slides
>> 
>> Problem is this;
>> 
>> I have set the handout to be 4 slides per page. I can print the
>first 
>> page of the handout but not subsequent pages, by highlighting the 
>> handout screen and telling it to print "Selection".
>> 
>> If I just tell it to PRINT, I get all slides full size at 1 slide
>per page.
>> 
>> Any body got an idea how I can fix this, please?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> Alex
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