Bug#712550: libreoffice: Writer inserts blank pages in form letters

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

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Hi,

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:10:51PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2
> Severity: normal

I am sorry, but stable only gets updates for real important issues with a
relatvely non-intrusive patch or for security. This is neither of them
and the 3.5.x codeline is out of life already..
(yeah, I know -0+deb7u1 got one non-real-impritant fix but that fix was trivial.)

>    * What led up to the situation?
> When I try to create things like numbered tickets using a custom label definition (5 to a page)
> with numbers printed on them (so that the first ticket is 1, the second is 11, then 21, etc. 
> down the page), using a 5 column spreadsheet (for example), the first page prints correctly
> then I get a blank page then I get the colours messed on the next page, etc..
> 
> If I have, for example, 40 pages of tickets to print then the print dialog shows 79 pages!
> 
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
> I can print the "form letter" one page at a time, the tickets print correctly. This is slow
> and error prone since I have to select each line in the spreadsheet individually, print it
> then go back to the print dialog to print the next page.
> 
> 
> The messed up colours on subsequent pages makes simply removing the extra blank pages 
> a poor solution. The fact that the print dialog seems to know that it's printing more
> pages than it should (i.e. 2 * n - 1) is also interesting.

Do you also see this in current LO versions? (wheezy-backports has a 4.0.3 for you.)

Regards,

Rene