https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106034
Bug ID: 106034
Summary: Printer's layout settings incorrectly applied before
printing
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Printing and PDF export
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 131262
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=131262&action=edit
Document: portrait, page: landscape
In File -> Print dialog selecting the printer and clicking Properties..., then
changing layout (orientation, page size) applies the setting incorrectly:
the page layout is updated, but the document layout isn't updated accordingly
(see attachment).
This happens in 5.3.0.3, and already in 3.3.0 / Windows 7.
Note: for this "Use only paper size from printer preferences" on Options tab
has to be ticked.
Main question, to the UX guys: what should actually happen?
My initial thought was that the straightforward way would be if the printer
setting only applied a rotation and/or resizing, without actually changing the
layout of the document.
I print very rarely, so I'm not sure what happens if your printer can handle
both landscape- and portrait-fed paper of a size, and you want to switch
between those. It might not be very relevant...
What I experienced so far suggests that the setting is supposed to adjust the
document layout for printing.
WordPad does so.
Writer, if the mentioned "Use only paper size from printer preferences" is set,
tries to do it, though fails halfway: changes the page orientation, but imposes
the old layout on it, which is then cut.
Interestingly, Word disregards the setting in the printer configuration: it has
its own settings right below, which allows to adjust them right before
printing, also updating the layout.
I can establish that the current behavior is wrong, but how could the setting
be made more user friendly?
Would fixing the bug reported here be enough?
The setting to use printer preferences could be moved to the first tab, there's
a report for that already, bug 94343.
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