Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 71417
Batch printing broken in 2.2, WinXP
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:31:14 UTC
Hi, I often print multiple OOo files to my printer (WinXP SP2) by dragging the documents from Explorer to the print queue. This no longer works on 2.0.4. It did work well with 2.0.3. I experienced the issue while trying to print a bunch of *odg files, so I immediately downgraded to 2.0.3. So I don't know if this just affects all files types, or just *odg. I have verified that this problem happens every time, with any printer I try. I also tried printing multiple text files to the same printer, which works fine, so I know it's not a Windows print spooler problem. What happens is it starts to print one of the files (appears to be the file that is alphabetically last) and then no more files appear in the queue, and a bunch of left over soffice.exe and soffice.bin processes asre left hanging in the process tree. Thanks for your help!
TM->>>>><HI: please have a look. Seems to be more a printing-issue than a framework problem to me. Thanks
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Any way this bug can be confirmed? I, for one, can confirm it.
Works fine here with 2.3m209 on WinXP using local printer (dropping to printer icon in Printers folder). Resolving as worksforme. sb56637, please check version 2.2, also specify if file, folder and printer names contain national chars.
Using OpenOffice 2.2 on Win XP SP2, this is STILL broken. It prints one document, then no more get added to the queue, and leaves a bunch of soffice processes hanging.
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Is there any way this issue could be confirmed? Thanks!
I have moved the files to the directory C:\test and the filenames do not contain spaces or special chars. Still broken.
reassigned
Please don't change the version entry. If nobody has fixed this problem it is logical that it is still in the current version.. We want to know in which version it has been found.
Confirmed
pl->cd: Is this a framework or application issue ?
cd: Must be checked if this is a pipe communication, command line processing problem. Otherwise this issue i related to the real printing code.
If this helps any, I just found out something... If I manually launch OpenOffice before trying to batch print in the manner I described, it works. It only hangs as I described if I do not have any soffice processes running before dragging'n'dropping the files onto the print queue.
Well, this just keeps getting better. I upgraded to 2.3.0, and now batch printing is completely broken. In fact, I can't even print a single file from the Windows Explorer / Printer Queue interface.
according to release status meeting -> target 3.x
I have the same problem with ODT files in OOo 3.2.1 on Vista. If the Quickstarter is disabled and OOo is not running before trying to print multiple files from Windows Explorer, only one file is actually printed. Multiple instances of soffice.bin and soffice.exe processes will then remain running and must be manually stopped before OOo can be opened.