The print dialog has the option to print selected pages. By default it show the value "first-last page". This default value is of no usefulness. A useful default value is: - if no selection, the page the cursor is on - if selection, the pages range the selection embraces
Thanks for your report. (In reply to comment #0) > - if no selection, the page the cursor is on Currently we have bug 34697 to implement this, which will be in 3.5 for Writer. Other apps are not finished yet. > - if selection, the pages range the selection embraces Not sure about this. :-) So change subject according to this.
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in LibO 3.6.0 master second feature still not present
paolobenve@gmail.com - Thanks for your good faith, but please don't change the version number, it is the *earliest* version where the problem occurred. See more at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#Version So I change it back.
> > - if selection, the pages range the selection embraces > Not sure about this. :-) So change subject according to this. I think that's been applied now on Writer with LO 4.0.4.2 (Win7 32bit)
Created attachment 81525 [details] screenshot of Writer with selected text and printing dialog
In 4.0.4 and 4.1.0 not implemented yet Steps to reproduce: 0. Open or create document spanning several pages 1. Select some text beginning on one page and ending on another 2. Ctrl-P and see field "Pages" Expected: range of pages, for example on screenshot above should be 2-3 because selection starts on page 2 and ends on page 3 Actually: only page where selection ends.
Ups..I've never imagine before about that. I thought about thumbnail preview on the left side when we change pages selection.
I retested this and: - if no selection, the page the cursor is on This is in bug 34697. - if selection, the pages range the selection embraces This is resolved, "Selection" is selected (not page range), at least LO 6.3.