Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 70823
Impress, handout view - please provide separate control to choose between stacked and side-by-side slide arrangement
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:18 UTC
Please provide separate control to choose between stacked and side-by-side slide arrangement in Impress handout view. The is required because the ability to change from one to another via drag and drop is not apparent and commonly needed feature remains hidden from user.
Maybe I do not quite understand: why do you need an additional control? You can change the layout of the handouts by simply doing a single click on the template in the task pane on the right.
wg, choosing the _number_ of slides per page is in fact easy and obvious. What is not obvious is how you choose between horizontal or vertical arrangement in 2 or 3 slides per page mode. On attached "handout-2slides.GIF" see that layout icon in the task pane shows side-by-side arrangement, but print-preview on the left shows one on top of the other (regardless of portrait (upper) or landscape (lower) page orientation) In order to arrange them side-by-side user can drag and drop slides, which is very nice feature, but it is very well hidden. Thus my RFE to somehow expose possibility to rearrange slides. Should I reopen the issue or you will, if you see fit? WBR, K. Palagin.
Ok, thanks for the additional information. I will attach a screenshot. A solution would be to load other layouts if the orientation is changed.
Reassigned.
Created attachment 40049 [details] screenshot
I believe your issue may be fixed with: Issue 85355 - Enhance handout printing in impress - available in the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please consider testing this new release and report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary. Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html