To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=101973 Issue #|101973 Summary|Collate print option defaulting to "on" causes problem |s Component|ui Version|OOo 3.0 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|Linux Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|uineedsconfirm Reported by|crxssi
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Fri May 15 21:08:14 +0000 2009 ------- The behavior in OO 3.0 & 3.1 was changed... Now the default in OO is to always have "collate on" in the print dialog, with no default choice allowed, without remembering the previous setting, and with no system-wide settings option. This is a now MAJOR problem for us. Under Linux/CUPS with network PS printers, the printer handles collation automatically. You just send a multipaged job to the printer, and the number of copies (with collate in the application OFF). The printer will repeat the job in it's memory quickly and efficiently producing a collated output. (It is extremely rare anyone would want uncollated, anyway). Now that the default in OO has changed, the users don't know that they are NOT supposed to check "Collate". When one checks that box, OpenOffice will generate the output N number of times. When a user requests 100 copies of a 50MB document, and collation is "ON" in OO, it sends 5,000MB of data to the printer. It causes a tremendous waste of CPU (we are centralized with thin clients) and tremendous waste of network bandwidth. It also slows down the printing process. All because that default was changed. I can't find a way to change the default to OFF like it used to be before OO 3.0. We need an environment variable or a way to hack the config files in the installation directory. A better long-term fix would be to at least have a default setting for collate in tools->options. Have a three-way setting: "always on", "always off", and "remember last setting". --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
