Bug 169946 - Printing orientation not saved between prints
Summary: Printing orientation not saved between prints
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
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6.3.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Reported: 2025-12-11 22:48 UTC by Konstantin Svist
Modified: 2025-12-16 19:13 UTC (History)
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Description Konstantin Svist 2025-12-11 22:48:18 UTC
I have a problem [1] where I need to repeatedly print and manually set orientation to "Landscape" every time.
I believe the Print dialog should save the orientation to last selected option (it already does this for most others, like page size)


[1] https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/envelope-printing-orientation-troubles/129630
Comment 1 rram 2025-12-12 06:01:49 UTC
Hi Konstantin, 

I can confirm that the landscape/portrait mode setting is not being saved between prints. The orientation must be reselected for each new print job instead of remaining at the last-used value.

This is reproducible in both the live and alpha versions.​

Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 620(Build:0)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2025-12-16 19:13:27 UTC
(In reply to Konstantin Svist from comment #0)
> https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/envelope-printing-orientation-troubles/129630

Quoting from that topic:

So I have a bunch of envelopes I want to print. The paper size is approximately 5.25" x 7.25".
Limitation: my printer does not like these envelopes to be in landscape orientation, that makes it jam. So, I set the Printer Settings -> Properties to 5x8", Portrait.

In LOW, I set Format -> Page Style -> Page to 5.25" x 7.25", Landscape

When I go to Print..., I set Paper Size to 5.00in x 8.00in and Orientation to Landscape.
After printing successfully, I update the address and go to Print... again – and the Orientation field is back to Automatic. Is there any way to make it stay on Landscape??

Automatic sounds good in theory, except that it always wants to print the text upright – but since the printer feed orientation is Portrait, it comes out sideways. It doesn’t seem to care that my in-doc page layout is Landscape.

Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 580(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

I reproduce with MS print to PDF. Already in 6.3, where it was made possible to change the orientation in the LibreOffice print dialog itself.

Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 680(Build:0)
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded