Bug 41479 - Writer: PRINTING selection should show page ranges in print dialog
Summary: Writer: PRINTING selection should show page ranges in print dialog
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Print-Dialog
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Reported: 2011-10-05 07:38 UTC by Paolo Benvenuto
Modified: 2020-05-21 12:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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screenshot of Writer with selected text and printing dialog (258.02 KB, image/png)
2013-06-27 06:16 UTC, sasha.libreoffice
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Description Paolo Benvenuto 2011-10-05 07:38:23 UTC
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
Comment 1 Korrawit Pruegsanusak 2011-10-08 00:23:32 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:38:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 sasha.libreoffice 2012-02-03 06:25:05 UTC
in LibO 3.6.0 master second feature still not present
Comment 4 Korrawit Pruegsanusak 2012-03-09 22:26:34 UTC
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.
Comment 5 ign_christian 2013-06-27 04:32:24 UTC
> > - 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)
Comment 6 sasha.libreoffice 2013-06-27 06:16:46 UTC
Created attachment 81525 [details]
screenshot of Writer with selected text and printing dialog
Comment 7 sasha.libreoffice 2013-06-27 06:22:25 UTC
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.
Comment 8 ign_christian 2013-06-27 06:52:20 UTC
Ups..I've never imagine before about that. I thought about thumbnail preview on the left side when we change pages selection.
Comment 9 Timur 2020-05-21 12:24:25 UTC
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.