OpenOffice printing with custom page size?

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Mon May 24 09:38:37 UTC 2010


I recently found the big missing in open office under Linux. It seems
that one has no way to print out a paper with custom page size, for
example, 8K.

Since cups understands PS and PDF, this fact give us a workaround:
1. openoffice --> pdf
2. print with a pdf reader
3. or via command line, for example, quoted from the help of cups
--------quote begin-----------
When Custom is listed for the PageSize option, you can specify custom
media sizes using one of the following forms:

lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTH filename
lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTHin filename
lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTHcm filename
lp -o media=Custom.WIDTHxLENGTHmm filename
---------quote end--------------

I just could not understand the current options in print dialogue in
OpenOffice on Linux. From above, it should not be such a difficult
thing to add a custom page size option.

How do you think about this. Does it have been issued as a bug or
requested as a feature?




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