Bug 47583 - PRINTING: Behaviour of Writer Print Options are not Transparent
Summary: PRINTING: Behaviour of Writer Print Options are not Transparent
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3.4 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2012-03-20 06:32 UTC by Harald Koester
Modified: 2014-10-11 22:44 UTC (History)
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Description Harald Koester 2012-03-20 06:32:43 UTC
Problem description: 

In order to illustrate the problem some steps: 
[1] Start LibreOffice and open a new text document. 
[2] Display general print options: Tools > Options... > LibreOffice Writer > Print. Keep in mind at least one setting of a print option. Then "Cancel".
[3] Display print options of current document: File > Printer Settings... > Options...  The displayed options correspond with the general print options.
[4] Change one option, then OK and again OK.
[5] Display general print options again: Tools > Options... > LibreOffice Writer > Print. The changed option of Step [4] is also changed here. Expectation: No change of general print option. Go on with Cancel.
[5] Open a second new text document.
[6] Display general print options again: Tools > Options... > LibreOffice Writer > Print. The change of step [4] is not displayed here. 

It took me some time to understand this behaviour:
The changed setting in step [4] does not change the general option, as it looked like in step [5].  Hence the settings are OK, but the display is wrong in step [5]. That means print properties of the current file are displayed in step [5].

Proposal in order to make the behaviour more transparent:
Insert a heading to the option category 'LibreOffice Writer > Print': "Initial Print Options of new Documents". And of course print options of current documents should not longer displayed in the general options dialog.

Hints:
(a) See also bug 47572.
(b) In bug 43786 and bug 47303 I described similar problems with options, which are used as a property of a document.

Problem also observed with Version 3.4.5.
              
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Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-06-14 00:50:30 UTC
Thanks for bugreport
reproduced in 3.3.4 and 3.5.4 on Fedora 64 bit
Tools > Options... > LibreOffice Writer > Print - not saved after closing LO
File > Printer Settings... > Options wrongly saved to main options for current session

IMHO intention of such behaviour was to save printer options on per-document basis.
But it works wrong even if on page
Tools > Options... > Load/Save > General
all suspicious options are disabled

Changing version to 3.3.4 as most early reproduced
Comment 2 A (Andy) 2014-10-11 22:44:52 UTC
Reproducible with LO 4.3.2.2 (Win 8.1)


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