Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 8900
Option to disable "use printer metrics to lay out document"
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:33:48 UTC
Changes in formating accross print drivers If you create openoffice document with one print driver and then switch to another the formating can change esp. flow accross pages and tabs. This is especially evident with A4 document containing tables (I will email if requested). Happens when switching between distiller/pdfwriter 4/fax(inbuilt into w2000) and most other drivers i.e. generic postcript, hp drivers etc. Also noticed this bug in staroffice 6.0 (with patch). I seem to remember older versions of word doing this.
OOo is a WYSIWYG editor, if you change the printer driver then you have changed the printer, and if the new printer will lay out text differently than the older printer, then OOo will show you what it will look like printed on that new printer. So its meant to happen, and not a bug. It is true that new versions of word have by default a compatability flag unset to not "use printer metrics to layout document", which seems to imply that if you print from a new ver of word that you might not get what you see on screen. And this is one of the issues that I'm suspicious about in relation to different layout of word and writer. So what we would be looking at here is a similiar option to disable using the current printer driver and instead use some sort of "ideal" printer driver. And obviously it would be perfect to be able to duplicate word's ideal printer. I've made this into an enhancement suggestion along those lines.
Thank you for this issue. I had to change the prio accordingly , as prio 1 only makes sense in cases as e.g. crashes, freezes, data loss or makes it impossible to create documents.
Set to "NEW"
cmc->bh/qa: This has actaully been implemented for 1.1Beta2. So this one is done and possible to close.
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To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".