[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 #12 from Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) <kelemeng at ubuntu.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #11)
> 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?

Yes, that makes sense. No need to change style from the Print dialog - just
make the Paper size and Orientation dropdowns "work" - i.e. align the virtual
page size / print range and the physical page selected by the user.

Having styles and using them is nice when you understand them in depth, but in
larger organizations it's common that not everyone is like that. It's also
common to have a document made by experts (of some area, also Office) be
printed & tweaked by a less expert colleague.
For such use cases overriding the style settings on a "just do it, NOW!!!" base
makes sense.

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