Bug 151967 - Printing handouts on Impress requires Portrait/Landscape option
Summary: Printing handouts on Impress requires Portrait/Landscape option
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.2.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) macOS (All)
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Reported: 2022-11-08 23:05 UTC by dmchatterton
Modified: 2023-06-10 03:14 UTC (History)
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Description dmchatterton 2022-11-08 23:05:31 UTC
Description:
When printing handouts with presentation notes attached, print format defaults to landscape which truncates the presentation notes. On the screen, the slide with its notes is displayed in portrait orientation but when trying to print, the orientation changes to landscape which truncates the notes. Apple's indigenous Keynote app. does have portrait/landscape selection in its print menus but this is missing from those of LibreOffice Impress.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select print from file menu.
2.
3.

Actual Results:
print summary displays landscape orientation

Expected Results:
portrait orientation should be shown when slide view includes presentation notes


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Downloaded latest version: 7.4.2.3; restarted computer. Problem still apparent.
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-11-10 14:29:57 UTC
Trying to clarify: do you mean that when you choose to print and go to the LibreOffice Impress tab in the dialog, you pick "Type: Notes" (_not_ "Handout"), and would like to have the notes on the right of the slide?

Currently it is possible to change to landscape ("General" tab > Page layout > Orientation: landscape), but it is true that we could have an extra option in the LibreOffice Impress tab, e.g. called "Notes position", with at least the options "Below" and "Right" (but could be all 4 positions?)

As for the issue of truncated notes, I don't have this issue as when I choose "Type: Notes", and leave paper orientation at "Automatic", the orientation automatically changes to portrait in the preview, the notes have plenty of space, and the printed out page looks the same. Maybe it is a mac-specific issue?

Please provide us with the information in Help > About LibreOffice, and precise steps with the settings you use in the print dialog.

I tested with:

Version: 7.4.2.3 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

and

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0cf5141b2233611286a27930d8030c562eb0d84b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2023-05-10 03:16:31 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2023-06-10 03:14:37 UTC
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