[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 155218] Printing: selecting different page orientation does not relayout printed content

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155218

--- Comment #11 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
PDF export has "Whole sheet export" feature. Indeed, this is not what is
discussed here. But my idea is: can we possibly introduce something called
"draft" print mode here, to address the issue?

The context: the printout depends on:

1. Selection in the Print dialog (Range: All pages / defined pages; More ->
Print All Sheets / Selected Sheets / Selected Cells);
2. Print styles of the sheets to print, which define virtual page size, and
scaling when outputting to that virtual page;
3. Print ranges (menu Format) on each of the sheet;
4. The physical page and its layout selected in Print dialog, on which the
virtual page is placed.

The printing is really complex; and I believe we should not introduce *more*
complexity by adding (default or not) settings to override specific properties
of styles in the Print dialog.

But something *temporary*, clearly targeting a printout for quick-n-dirty
analysis, which would use some simple setup, but *does not* change any document
settings, would IMO be a reasonable thing to add. Which would, as asked here,
ignore page orientation - but not only that: page size; margins; maybe
header/footer; page borders; scaling; maybe print ranges ... so that it would
not create impression that it replaces the proper setup for publishing.

What do you think?

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