https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77650
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 77650
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary: Improve usability of PDF export of Writer documents
with comments
Severity: enhancement
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: gerry.trep...@googlemail.com
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+ Master
Component: Printing and PDF export
Product: LibreOffice
It is so good to have Writer being able to print and PDF export documents with
comments in the margin (bug 36815). Whereas the printing of documents with
comments is straight-forward, the usability of PDF exporting of documents with
comments needs to be improved to actually make it usable for end users.
Current situation:
In the PDF export dialog "File" -> "Export as PDF", there is an option "Export
comments". This, however, exports the comments as PDF comments (according to
the PDF spec). Currently, from the PDF export dialog the user is not able to
export PDFs with comments in the margin. For that, the user needs to go to
"Tools" -> "Options" -> "LibreOffice Writer" -> "Print" and enable there
"Comments, Place in Margin". Then, the user can use again the PDF export dialog
to correctly export PDFs with comments in the margin. But, the user has to
*switch off* the option "comments" in that dialog in order to not get the
comments twice (as PDF comments and in the margin). If the user wants to PDF
export the next document without comments, he/she has to do the entire
procedure again. UX needs to be improved.
Improvement idea:
As all features actually do exist, the improvement should be quite easy and
limited to UI only (I hope so). Change the dialog "File" -> "Export as PDF" to:
_______________
|Export comments|
o Do not export comments
o Place as PDF comments
o Place in margin
o Place at end of document
o Place at end of page
o Export only comments
A pulldown menu is probably the best solution to have these six options
available.
The second option is the current (in LO 4.2.x) default option when the user
checks "Export comments" in the export PDF dialog.
The options 3 to 6 are the options currently (in 4.3 nightly) found only in the
"Options" -> "LibreOffice Writer" -> "Print" dialog.
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