Issue 69676 - Printer vs. File distinction in Tools - Options should be removed
Summary: Printer vs. File distinction in Tools - Options should be removed
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.4
Hardware: All All
: P5 (lowest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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URL: http://www.pangea.at/~ralph/printer-s...
Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2006-09-19 16:27 UTC by ralphie
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description ralphie 2006-09-19 16:27:41 UTC 
The distinction in 
Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Print between printer and file, see

http://www.pangea.at/~ralph/printer-settings-file-vs-printer.png

does not (or no longer?) make any sense. Since exporting PDF is 
the common way to handle printing into files, even less so. It
makes the dialog confusing.

/ralph -- yes, I submitted something similar in an old issue, closed
          long ago. This one is much more to the point.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld 2007-01-31 06:07:43 UTC 
I also believe that "print to file" is no important feature, but I doubt that we
can pass on that option. As long as printer drivers will offer to print to file,
we need the possibility to do those settings in Menu 'Tools - Options - OOo - Print'
Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld 2007-01-31 06:08:13 UTC 
Requirement
Comment 3 ralphie 2007-01-31 08:46:29 UTC 
Thanks for considering that issue.

My problem is not with printing to file (which by itself is
of course important), but that there are *different* printer
preferences for printing to file.

The radio button this issue is about more or less acts
like a "tab" in the dialog, creating two sets of options
one for the actual printer, one for print-to-file. This
faux tab behaviour is what is confusing. The distinction
*in the options* is IMHO no longer required.
Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld 2007-01-31 08:52:47 UTC 
@ralphie
Yes, I agree, currently I can not see any reasons to have different properties,
but I am not familiar with all OS specific needs. May be that those different
settings for "Print to file" are useful for some exotic OS.
Comment 5 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:55:30 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".