Description: I would like to hide a page in Draw similar how I can hide a slide in Impress. I use Draw to design fliers and I like to keep different versions of a page in the document for reference. Sometime later often I'll need a particular variation again. So it would be handy to hide the pages I don’t want to print at the moment. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a document with several similiar pages 2. Want to indicate that a certain page is not the recent version Actual Results: It's not possible to do this by hiding a page like I can do in Impress. Expected Results: There is an option to a hide a page in the page pane like there is in Impress. A hidden page should be displayed there the same as in Impress: With diagonal gray bars Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.5.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 36ccfdc35048b057fd9854c757a8b67ec53977b6 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.utf-8); UI: de-DE Calc: threaded
I understand it is less important as a feature when compared to Impress, in which hiding slides during presentation is primordial. But I understand the use case (for example in a work-in progress, diagram-heavy manual with several versions of the same page), and the workaround of defining the page range by hand is a lot less practical. Design/UX team, thoughts?
Hiding slides makes sense as you run the whole presentation. Draw is different in this regards and you probably just don't want to print the page. Have you considered to use the states of layers, ie. Printable/Visible, to achieve your goals?
Yes, this is what I'm doing at the moment, see here: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-hide-a-page-in-draw-like-hiding-a-slide-in-impress/94704/6 But at the moment there is no visual indication which layers won't be printed. And I still have to manually select the pages I want to print because the Printing status is for a layer, not a whole page. Also, I have to manually copy the special form indicating the non-printing page to a new page when I want to hide it, which isn't that handy because the special layer has to be unlocked first and then locked again. It would be so much easier to have an option to hide/unhide a page from the context menu of the page sidebar like it's possible in Impress.
For printing you can exclude the page in the print dialog. If you want to exclude pages 2 and 6, you can select "Pages" and enter 1,3-5,7-20 in its field, for example.
And same work in PDF export.
Thanks, I know that I can do that, and of course this is what I'm doing at the moment. But I would love to be able to just hit the print or Export PDF button and don't have to care about writing page numbers in the Pages field. Think about, may be I found a typo in one page page and I have to Export it again (and again). And every time I have to manually enter my desired page range in the print and Export PDF dialog. Having the visible information which pages are going to be printed and then only this pages are printed would be awesome.
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We discussed the topic in the design meeting. The majority voted against a feature to hide pages in order to not print it completely. The print dialog and workflow to select a print range is common and easy to do. If you think we should remember the print range, we happily discuss this in another ticket.
Thank you very much for the feedback, even if it's nit what I was hoping for. Yes, in that case remembering the print range would be awesome.