Joe Smith wrote: > Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Unfortunately OOo Calc and Impress use the printer not only for printing >> but also for retrieval of some settings ... > > Could you tell us briefly what settings a document needs from the printer? > > I thought that OOo documents are device-independent, and that the > "current printer" could be an application property (like the directory > where the document lives), not a document property.
Writer doesn't need any (and so printer settings are not created before the user asks for them) but obviously Calc and Impress *think* they need them. It's possible that this is a remnant from the times where document formatting where printer dependent. In this case it would be just a bug. But it's also possible that the applications are retrieving something from the printer settings like e.g. available page formats and page margins etc. I think that can be changed but without having a closer look into the code it's hard to be sure and to estimate the effort. As I wrote, I'm currently working on this problem and hope to get it fixed soon, together with the develops of Calc and Impress. Once this is done we can also think about a way to make storing printer settings optional as asked for by Kirill. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
