Issue 124973 - printer settings not saved
Summary: printer settings not saved
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: 3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Hardware: All All
: P3 Normal (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: regression
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Reported: 2014-05-24 13:22 UTC by ooo
Modified: 2014-05-26 08:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.0
Developer Difficulty: ---

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Description ooo 2014-05-24 13:22:22 UTC 
Changing printer settings doesn't flag the document as being updated so if the document is not force saved with 'save as', printer settings that should be saved with the document are lost.
Document is .odt
Option load printer settings with document is ticked.
Comment 1 mroe 2014-05-24 14:55:44 UTC 
If you want to save the printer settings you have two options:

1) changing the printer via File → Printer settings…
or
2) Tools → Options - OpenOffice - General
	Document status: [x]Printing sets "document modified" status

2) was introduced because most people doesn't understand that printing changes the document status to save the printing date in it.
Comment 2 ooo 2014-05-24 15:49:03 UTC 
1) Changing printer settings via File → Printer settings does not save printer settings.

2)Tools → Options - OpenOffice - General
	Document status: [x]Printing sets "document modified" status

That may work if you actually print the document. It's also confusing because only the settings for the printer used to print the document are saved, not any other printer settings.

It would be much more logical to follow my report and associate printer settings with the document and if any are changed then the status of the document changes with them.  That way all printer settings are always saved and everyone should understand the circumstances under which they are saved.

Just trying to help.
Comment 3 mroe 2014-05-24 16:06:29 UTC 
(In reply to ooo from comment #2)
> 1) Changing printer settings via File → Printer settings does not save
> printer settings.

In my tests it forces to change the document status as you wanted in comment 0.


> 2)Tools → Options - OpenOffice - General
> 	Document status: [x]Printing sets "document modified" status
> 
> That may work if you actually print the document. It's also confusing
> because only the settings for the printer used to print the document are
> saved, not any other printer settings.

That may be true but this is an other issue as it was described.

So I reopen this issue with another heading.
Comment 4 mroe 2014-05-24 16:10:54 UTC 
That printer settings are not saved if they are changed inside the printing dialogue was introduced with the new layout (preview) of the printing dialogue.

So it is a REGRESSION.
Comment 5 oooforum (fr) 2014-05-26 08:00:50 UTC 
Seems to be a duplicate of bug 70116