https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42657
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #11 from [email protected] --- The newly redesigned File->Print dialog for writer and calc always completely ignores the paper size, paper orientation, and duplex settings that are stored/saved in the document. Instead, it guesses what they should be, on the fly, based solely on the format->page size/page (guessing what the user might want). If one changes any of those settings in the print dialog, none are them are saved in the document (plus they are ignored anyway the next time the print dialog appears). Even worse, the File->Printer Settings Dialog STILL SHOWS what is saved in the document AND remembers any changes you make there, which is then subsequently ignored by the new File->Print dialog. Example (just paper size): * Create new writer document with defaults (letter sized page in our case). * File->Printer Settings change paper size to legal and say "OK". * Go back into File->Printer Settings, see that the setting is saved in the document and it still says "legal". * Go into File->Print and see that the paper size has changed to letter. * Go back to File->Printer Settings, see that it is still set to legal. * Go into File->Print and change paper size from letter to A4 and print it. * Go back into File->Print and see that it is back to letter again. * Go into File->Printer Settings and see that it is actually still legal saved as the paper size. * Save document, close it, open it, and go into File->Printer Settings to prove that it was saved in the document as legal. This current behavior is inconsistent, confusing, and messy. I understand why the designers of the new File->Print dialog might have it ignore the saved settings and not allow any of those changed settings to be saved- perhaps to try and reduce confusion by less experienced users who simply don't understand the need for PAGE size/orientation to be different from PAPER size/orientation. However, mis-matching the two is needed when using brochure printing, posterizing, and printing N-up. It is still possible to do all those functions with the current behavior, but it is far more frustrating, since it is not possible to have the settings remembered/saved/honored in that document. And having the File->Printer Settings dialog not follow the same logic as File->Print is just insane. There are cases where certain types of print settings should not be saved or remembered, like number of copies, page ranges, or maybe even n-up printing. With some other settings it is far less clear. I don't know the "perfect" behavior for all use cases, but the current behavior is worse than the previously used behavior. (I would vote for this to be corrected back to the old behavior, except for some reason voting is not turned "on" on this bugzilla.) Tested Using LO 4.0.0, vanilla RPM, under RHEL 6.2 Linux. Also verified on several other Linuxes and versions of LO. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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