Issue 125081 - printing preview shows blank page
Summary: printing preview shows blank page
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: printing (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.0
Hardware: PC Linux 64-bit
: P3 Major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact: UKS
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-06-12 01:26 UTC by aboba
Modified: 2016-02-14 04:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.2
Developer Difficulty: ---


Attachments
zip file containing spreadsheet described, screenshot of empty preview, and screenshot of error displayed when "Export Directly as PDF" is clicked (83.33 KB, application/zip)
2014-06-12 01:26 UTC, aboba
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Description aboba 2014-06-12 01:26:08 UTC
Created attachment 83539 [details]
zip file containing spreadsheet described, screenshot of empty preview, and screenshot of error displayed when "Export Directly as PDF" is clicked

zip file containing spreadsheet described, screenshot of empty preview, and screenshot of error displayed when "Export Directly as PDF" is clicked

Problem description: in new .ods file with first sheet containing data, 2nd & 3rd sheet empty, and cell pointer anywhere in the data range on sheet 1 selecting "Page Preview" from menu or tool bar icon results in empty preview pane being displayed. NOT EVEN an empty page, just a gray preview with the normal preview tool bars but no page of any sort displayed.

Steps to reproduce:
1. .... load file in Calc
2. .... select "Page Preview" however you like
3. .... observe total lack of any preview

Current behavior: as described

Expected behavior: a preview of the page the cell pointer is currently on

Note: selected .pdf icon while on blank "preview" to see if that would produce a .pdf containing something. It didn't. Resulted in error message, "Error saving the document printing_issue: Write Error. The file could not be written."

Note2: Started this bug report to describe another printing issue that was happening consistently with attached worksheet. That error no longer occurred once text in spreadsheet was replaced with "Lorem ipsum dolor" text to obfuscate.
Comment 1 UKS 2016-02-14 03:10:46 UTC
I was able to reproduce this defect on AOO 4.1.2 on OS Ubuntu Linux 15.10.
Comment 2 orcmid 2016-02-14 04:05:05 UTC
And you wanted to print an empty preview?

Admittedly, the failure is peculiar.  But why there is no preview and it claims page 1/0 is perhaps a bigger question.

I opened this file and turned columns B-C visible.

That made no difference.

When I changed my printer setting for Landscape the same as the page layout for the file, it previewed fine and I could save the file successfully as a PDF.  (I also set it to fit 1 page high and 1 page wide.)

This was with AOO 4.1.2 for Windows x86 en-US, on Windows 10.