https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673
--- Comment #88 from Thomas Passin <[email protected]> --- I was one of the many who reported this problem in one from or another. The problem is Windows-specific. I have found out that the problem actually comes from the Windows print system. There is no way to check that a printer is actually active or working or even present without incurring a long time-out in case the printer is not present or powered. Trying to check the defualt printer will incur the same time-out. Calc apparently wants to check the printer to know how to construct its layout, and has to wait for the time-out to continue. Some of the comments that claim that Calc hangs and never returns have probably not waited long enough for the timeout. On my new Windows 11 computer, this printer system behavior has been changed and I no longer experience a delay while opening Calc. My Windows 10 computer is defunct so I can't go back to check so there is an element of memory here, but here's a Python program I used to experiment with the printer issue. It used to incur the time-out but now in Windows 11 it returns right away if the printer isn't available. Note that in Windows 11 (or possibly later versions of PyQt6; I can't check that at present), the printer is reported as being valid and in the idle state even though that isn't actually so. This program uses PyQt6 printer support but it could be checked separate from PyQt6. from PyQt6 import QtPrintSupport as printsupport pinfo = printsupport.QPrinterInfo() default_printer = pinfo.defaultPrinter() printer = printsupport.QPrinter(default_printer) print(printer.isValid()) if default_printer.isNull(): print('Printer is missing or off') else: print(default_printer.state()) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
