Bug 170303 - Printing is different from shown in the print window
Summary: Printing is different from shown in the print window
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.3.2 release
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2026-01-12 09:34 UTC by abcama
Modified: 2026-01-13 20:46 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Screenshot of the print window (777.80 KB, image/png)
2026-01-13 08:11 UTC, abcama
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Description abcama 2026-01-12 09:34:46 UTC
Description:
When printing a brochure, the preview looks OK but print is wrong (either 2 small pages on top in portrait layout or full A4 pages, but never 2 pages on a landscape layout). This happens in the 25.8 version on MacOS Sequoia 15.7.3 and wasn't the case with earlier version of LibreOffice.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on Print
2.Choose brochure
3.clic on recto-verso (short sides)

Actual Results:
It prints either a portrait page with the 2 brochure pages at the top or full pages (only even pages, odd pages won't print)

Expected Results:
It should have printed 2 pages in lanscape layout


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
LibreOffice 25.8 est à jour.
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2026-01-13 03:29:43 UTC
Please attach a sample file, reduced as much as possible, without private information.

Please paste here the information in Menu>Help>About LibreOffice.

(There is an icon in the center to copy the information).
Comment 2 abcama 2026-01-13 08:11:40 UTC
Created attachment 205027 [details]
Screenshot of the print window

This is a screenshot showing how the print should come. But the print is in portrait mode with the 2 pages printed at the top of the sheets.
Comment 3 abcama 2026-01-13 08:14:37 UTC
Note : My LibreOffice version shows 25.8
Comment 4 Alistair Saywell 2026-01-13 08:52:36 UTC
Using a 4 page sample set to print as Brochure, if I then change the printer in the print dialogue, the preview changes from a normal brochure in landscape to a portrait page with the brochure printing at the bottom but cut off at the left. 

The second preview is how the pages actually print. See https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/printing-is-different-from-shown-in-the-print-window/130847/2?u=earnestal for the faulty preview (and printing). Sample document included in an earlier comment

Version: 25.2.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 03d19516eb2e1dd5d4ccd751a0d6f35f35e08022
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-NZ (en_NZ); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL threaded

An earlier version, 24.8.4.2, on the same computer gives a normal preview