Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 9/04/22 00:17, gene heskett wrote: IMO its up to the pdf interpretor to make the pdf its handed fit the printer. Period, IMO it is not open for discussion. "Make it fit" might include scaling. You don't necessarily want that happening automatically - what if you're printing something like

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, April 10, 2022 11:20:39 AM Curt wrote: >> Les provinciales (1656), XVI de Blaise Pascal >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales >> >> "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." >> (Letter XVI) >

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-11 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, April 10, 2022 11:20:39 AM Curt wrote: > Les provinciales (1656), XVI de Blaise Pascal > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales > > "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." > (Letter XVI) Cicero died around 43 B.C. (Beheaded, iirc.)

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, April 08, 2022 08:17:14 AM gene heskett wrote: >> I think Ben Franklin said it first, First, we get rid of all the lawyers. > > Billy (Shakespeare) said it before Ben. But I would not be surprised to find > that someone said it much earlier

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-10 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, April 08, 2022 08:17:14 AM gene heskett wrote: > I think Ben Franklin said it first, First, we get rid of all the lawyers. Billy (Shakespeare) said it before Ben. But I would not be surprised to find that someone said it much earlier than that. I once looked into the origin of ~"I

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 12:19:10 -0400 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that. > That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience of having > something like /var/log/syslog loaded in the Mousepad text editor. It > will keep announcing

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 08:17:14 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 8 April 2022 07:32:00 EDT Curt wrote: > > On 2022-04-08, David Wright wrote: > > >> Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets > > >> updated when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 12:19:10PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: [...] > Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that. > That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience of having > something like /var/log/syslog loaded in the Mousepad text editor. It > will keep

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-08, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> >> LO: MS Word does it, so LO does it / because fields in the document may be >> automatically updated prior to printing > > Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that. > That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/22, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland > wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >>>Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' >> > >> Does anyone have any insight into why this is an option?

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, 8 April 2022 07:32:00 EDT Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-08, David Wright wrote: > >> Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets > >> updated when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no option > >> in that case. > >> > >> Not sure of the accuracy of either

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-08, David Wright wrote: >> >> Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets updated >> when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no option in that case. >> >> Not sure of the accuracy of either report... > > … nor of my memory. > > I was never a

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Apr 2022 at 10:45:46 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' > > > > > Does anyone have any insight

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-07 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >>Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' > > Does anyone have any insight into why this is an option? More > specifically, what reason would

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 09:58:28 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hello Jonathan, >marked as modified because they printed it? Not really. Other than; "MS-Word offers the same option." -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immediately apparent" / _)rad "Is it

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' Does anyone have any insight into why this is an option? More specifically, what reason would anyone want to have their document marked as modified because they

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 19:33:16 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: > > Thanks. Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I tried checking > > it; that also modified on printing. Libreoffice appears to be > > ignoring that flag. > > I just confirmed that the version of LibreOffice I'm running matches >

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On 4/2/22 14:10, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 10:58:49 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: Start LibreOffice, open the 'Tools' menu and click on 'Options'. Under the 'LibreOffice' heading select 'General' and in about the middle of the new set of options you will see 'Document Status'. Be

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 15:10:46 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: Hello Charles, >Thanks. Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I tried checking it; >that also modified on printing. Libreoffice appears to be ignoring that >flag. Works here. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 10:58:49 -0700 Bob McGowan wrote: > Start LibreOffice, open the 'Tools' menu and click on 'Options'. > Under the 'LibreOffice' heading select 'General' and in about the > middle of the new set of options you will see 'Document Status'. > > Be sure it is not checked. Thanks.

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 11:22:25 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: Hello Charles, >gets marked as "dirty", i.e. it has changes, and should be saved. How >do I turn off marking the file as dirty? I think what you want is; Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' --

Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-02 Thread Charles Curley
My search-fu has failed me. When I print a text document from Libreoffice, the file being printed gets marked as "dirty", i.e. it has changes, and should be saved. How do I turn off marking the file as dirty? libreoffice-core 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u1, amd64 -- Does anybody read signatures any more?