Hi Philipp,
Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany wrote:
Some enhancements and bugfixes recently showed to me that our PDF export
feature perhaps needs further consideration. It seems to me that there
are two groups of users for PDF export:
There are those who use PDF like they would a printer. After a PDF
document is created it is basically unchangeable like printed paper.
Also PDF often is used as preview of a printed version in this case.
This use case probably originates from the common method to produce PDF
using software that poses as a print driver.
Then there are those who want to create PDF documents as a portable way
to present content (e.g. as presentations) or even have interactive
features like form controls.
So what does this trivial insight tell us ? The first group would
probably want that all settings that concern printing (see e.g.
tools->options->writer->print) would also apply to PDF export. The
second group however would most probably not want the printer settings
to apply; e.g. they would want their text in colors even if “print
black” is selected in the print settings. It might be useful to have
have an extra check box in the PDF export dialog that says “Apply print
settings”.
Any opinions ?
If there is a check box to "apply print settings" I would like to also
have a button that brings me to "Options -> OpenOffice -> Print -> Print
to File". If you are not familiar with the product then it's cumbersome
to figure out what and where they are.
I also recommend to disable the settings for image compression in the
"PDF Options" dialog as it's unclear which would apply.
It's a bit nasty that "PDF Options" uses different wording for images
compared to "Options ... Print" (Images -> Reduce image resolution" vc.
"Reduce Bitmaps -> Resolution").
Ciao
Christof
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