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Proposal: Maybe something to change/merge for further releases? | Proposal: Maybe something to change/merge for further releases? | ||
Open Question: Maybe also Calc is affected, since it also supports change tracking. | Open Question: Maybe also Calc is affected, since it also supports change tracking. | ||
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| + | | Issue: Why should we provide "Colors" (original colors, grayscale, black&white) to Draw/Impress only? Does it make sense to make it available to all document types? | ||
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| + | | Easy handling of printing options defaults | ||
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| + | | Issue: Usually (but not always!), the settings of printing options which are located in the printing dialog are saved on a per document bases. Settings located in the Tools - Options are made available to all newly created documents. But, many people are not aware of this fact. | ||
| + | Proposal: If we don't go for printer setting presets, it might make sense to add a functionality in the printing dialog to make these settings persistent (to e.g. store defaults like in Tools -- Options). | ||
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Revision as of 18:16, 9 August 2009
This page is part of the CWS printerpullpages. It collects ideas which may later get evaluated and even integrated. You are invited to add your ideas!
| Date Raised | Source | Summary | Status | Details |
| ??? | I-Team Specification | Replace Print Preview Printing | Accepted | Currently, Writer provides very flexible N-up capabilities. This should be made available to all applications – via the new print dialog. |
| ??? | I-Team | Improve Workflows | New | Besides the printing dialog, the concepts and the handling of printing options is difficult in OpenOffice.org (currently we just provide a list of options which have to be combined in a useful manner – here the user has to know exactly what to do).
Another example is the work-flow breaking dialog handling when printing. More information can be found in the blog post Transparent Decision Making. So this is no real “idea”, it is more a reminder to keep an eye on that. |
| 2009-06-11 | I-Team | Contextual Information Bar | New | As discussed in “Improve Workflows”, there are currently a number of modal dialogs which might interrupt the workflow. So how about a contextual information bar which informs only (e.g. for wrong page sizes, transparency, gradients, ...)? How about adding a contextual information bar in the dialog itself...
 On the other hand, it would be better to get rid of all these additional informations, warnings and decisions. Open Questions:
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| ??? | I-Team | Harmonize printing and PDF export | New | Currently, the capabilities of printing and PDF export differ a lot (Example: There is no way to export handouts in Impress.) Why not harmonize that? |
| 2009-06-14 | I-Team | Printer Presets | New | Currently, we provide a lot of printer settings which have to be combined by the user. Generally, users use only a small number of combinations, since they are editing similar documents. So they might just use settings for "draft" or "final output". Print settings which could be customized could help here (costomized: edited, saved, loaded, deleted). Some competitors already offer this kind of functionality. |
| 2009-06-14 | Regina | multiple copies of a one page document on one paper sheet | New | Use case: You need a lot of DIN A5 sheets to distribute flyers or for to give the sheets to your pupils in your classroom. You write a DIN A5 document. But DIN A5 paper is more expensive than DIN A4 paper. So you want to print the same document twice on a DIN A4 paper. That is not possible up to now. Besides the Issue 67687 , have a look in the internet forums, you see that people are searching for that feature but get only workarounds or have to buy special software. For example http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=65019 or http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=30747 or the workaround for Word http://www.gmayor.com/print_multiple_copies.htm |
| 2009-06-16 | Regina | Assistance for envelope printing | New | Printing envelopes still belongs to the tasks which most failures. OOo should use informations about the printer (for example from the PPD-file) to help the users. For example, OOo can show how to insert the envelop, or show, what position the envelope must have compared with the standard paper sheet. |
| 2009-07-04 | Christoph | Merge change tracking and notes | New | Issue: In Writer, currently there is no common handling for the printing of Notes or handling of Change Tracking. If tracked changes are enabled in the document, they are also printed. There is no way to enable/disable these „reviewer markups“.
Proposal: Maybe something to change/merge for further releases? Open Question: Maybe also Calc is affected, since it also supports change tracking. |
| 2009-08-09 | Christoph | Further harmonize printing options | New | Issue: Why should we provide "Colors" (original colors, grayscale, black&white) to Draw/Impress only? Does it make sense to make it available to all document types?
Proposal: Harmonize the options. |
| 2009-08-09 | Christoph | Easy handling of printing options defaults | New | Issue: Usually (but not always!), the settings of printing options which are located in the printing dialog are saved on a per document bases. Settings located in the Tools - Options are made available to all newly created documents. But, many people are not aware of this fact.
Proposal: If we don't go for printer setting presets, it might make sense to add a functionality in the printing dialog to make these settings persistent (to e.g. store defaults like in Tools -- Options). |
