[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113847] New: Printing from Draw/Impress: restructure distributing/ tiling options

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113847

            Bug ID: 113847
           Summary: Printing from Draw/Impress: restructure
                    distributing/tiling options
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Printing and PDF export
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: mikekaganski at hotmail.com

Created attachment 137770
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Screenshot of Impress print dialog

When printing from Draw and Impress, there are two options (absent in other
modules):

* Distribute on multiple sheets of paper
* Tile sheet on paper with repeated pages

They lack a description in help system, so here are the best descriptions I
could find:

>From tdf#63905:

> Tile pages puts multiple small pages onto one large page, unscaled. For instance,
> if you create a drawing with a page format of 4.25"x 5.5" (1/4th of a letter page)
> and print that on letter paper with tiling, it will put 4 non-scaled images on
> one sheet of letter paper.
> 
> I don't think the description of "Tile sheet of paper with repeated pages" is
> very meaningful, but I can't come up with anything better. It literally is just
> tiling the pages.

>From tdf#84051:

> when you set page size to A2, and in printing set paper size as A4 and have
> "Distribute on multiple sheets of paper" selected, page will be printed to 9 pages

So, what they both do, is print the pages *unscaled*, but the "Distribute"
deals with cases when the page in file is *larger* than selected printer's
page, and the "Tile" deals with cases when the page in file is *smaller* than
physical paper.

My proposal is to change these two items to be subitems of the "Original size"
option, and make them checkboxes to be able to check none (so that original
meaning of "Original size" is used in this case), one, or both. The reason is
that a user could want, e.g., to distribute pages on several physical sheets of
paper when paper is smaller, *and* tile when paper is large, or a combination.
Of course, Draw/Impress don't allow for different page sizes in one file, but
even then, it's possible to choose different printer paper at different times,
and have a proper preset.

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