In the new Print dialog in version 6.3, the two previously independent groups of settings (Range from General tab, and Page Sides from Page Layout tab) were merged into one single radio group. This prevents one from selecting something in the document, or define a pages range, and only print even/odd pages from that selection/range. The examples of user complaints are: Bug 122707 comment 17 ( https://forumooo.ru/index.php/topic,7793 ) https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/209447/print-range-oddeven-pages-in-lo_writer-63/ This is usability regression.
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reproducible with Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: 71ef762f21ada8c25aad2183065478171e985e8c CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
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Problem persists in LibreOffice 6.4.3.2
I doubt the severity. Printing only even/odd pages of a range is a corner case. And easy to work around by entering the actual page numbers. Plus, was it ever possible to print even/odd pages before? Nevertheless we should solve the issue. I suggest to have buttons for Odd/Even that switch the selection to Range and enter the pages in this field. If pages has been filled with a value before, eg. 1-20 we could modify that.
I'll be working on this.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7) > I doubt the severity. Printing only even/odd pages of a range is a corner > case. And easy to work around by entering the actual page numbers. Plus, was > it ever possible to print even/odd pages before? > > Nevertheless we should solve the issue. I suggest to have buttons for > Odd/Even that switch the selection to Range and enter the pages in this > field. If pages has been filled with a value before, eg. 1-20 we could > modify that. Unfortunately, it is not easy to enter 50 even pages of the range. It used to be more convenient. You could specify a range and choose whether to print even or odd pages from it. This is needed to print a part of a large document.
(In reply to Andrej from comment #9) > (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7) > > I doubt the severity. Printing only even/odd pages of a range is a corner > > case. And easy to work around by entering the actual page numbers. Plus, was > > it ever possible to print even/odd pages before? > > > > Nevertheless we should solve the issue. > > ... > > Unfortunately, it is not easy to enter 50 even pages of the range. Of course, Heiko simply wasn't familiar with how often the need arises to print part of a large text document double-sided on a single-side printer. However, despite doubting, he didn't actually change the severity, only expressed his doubts; and continued to "Nevertheless we should solve the issue". So it's not abandoned, don't worry - Srijan Bhatia even assigned it, so hopefully it will be fixed soon - good luck Srijan Bhatia! :-)
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7) > I doubt the severity. Printing only even/odd pages of a range is a corner > case. And easy to work around by entering the actual page numbers. Plus, was > it ever possible to print even/odd pages before? > > Nevertheless we should solve the issue. I suggest to have buttons for > Odd/Even that switch the selection to Range and enter the pages in this > field. If pages has been filled with a value before, eg. 1-20 we could > modify that. Shouldn't there be a seperate field for taking range for the even and odd options? The pages option can take single page numbers as well in which case a user could input an odd page number in the even option or the opposite(It won't print it though as the code won't allow it).
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Submitted a patch for this. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/96612 Did this for draw/impress as well as it would suffer from the same issue.
Srijan Bhatia committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/14b8c176133979cd1c3163ef5fe3eed0e6479fea tdf#127680 Add the option to print even or odd values from a particular range It will be available in 7.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Works in Writer, Impress, Draw 7.1+. (Impress/Draw works with Slides/Pages, not with Selection, which I guess was meant for content not pages). Still not in Calc (as noted in the patch review). Can be another bug. I find odd this order "Even and Odd"/"Even"/"Odd", per real numbers better sequence would be "Odd and Even"/"Odd"/"Even" (as is in MSO and WPS). I see that in pre-6.3 there used to be the same order and in post-6.3 again Even and Odd but it should be corrected, best here and now.
(In reply to Timur from comment #15) > Works in Writer, Impress, Draw 7.1+. (Impress/Draw works with Slides/Pages, > not with Selection, which I guess was meant for content not pages). > > Still not in Calc (as noted in the patch review). Can be another bug. > > I find odd this order "Even and Odd"/"Even"/"Odd", per real numbers better > sequence would be "Odd and Even"/"Odd"/"Even" (as is in MSO and WPS). > I see that in pre-6.3 there used to be the same order and in post-6.3 again > Even and Odd but it should be corrected, best here and now. Patch for this https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/98602
Heiko, Mike, can xou please push Srijan's patch?
Srijan Bhatia committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/28df1d9a8d51ce8b682a9723fcc2810127c3d7a2 tdf#127680 change even/odd dialog order It will be available in 7.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Srijan Bhatia committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-0": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/482507d7bbc915fd5a10c64bfb60695b2a233a12 tdf#127680 Add the option to print even or odd values from a particular range It will be available in 7.0.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Srijan Bhatia committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-0": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/cd1c6c06cdba864238e1a590759b053ef12b80cb tdf#127680 change even/odd dialog order It will be available in 7.0.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.