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User crxssi changed the following:
What |Old value |New value
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Status|CLOSED |UNCONFIRMED
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Resolution|DUPLICATE |
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------- Additional comments from crx...@openoffice.org Sun May 31 01:22:06
+0000 2009 -------
Adding updated info from followup on issue 59506 here...
Some people will want collate on as the default... just for convenience. Many
people have asked for it, and unfortunately it was given to them in OO 3.0
without any real regard to the consequences. Many people will have severe
problems with the default being "on", and our business is one of them (as I
explained in a previous comment, above).
There might be some type of different options under other OS's (MSWin/MacOS),
but under Linux it is very problematic using the collate function on.
The suggestion about storing the collate setting per printer is probably not
practical, since there is no user interface in OO that addresses saved options
on a per-printer basis (unless they want to resurrect the spadmin tool, which is
now pretty much dead). Storing such a setting in a document doesn't really make
any sense.
So the only best remaining way to handle the problem is to make an option in
tools->printing that can hold a user's preference for collation:
1) Remember previously used state (begin with setting off)
2) Always default to off
3) Always default to on
4) Always remain off (and don't show option in print dialog)
With the default setting for new installations set to #1 (since that is most
logical).
The above change would solve the problem for most people once and for all.
Although there should also be a way that a system administrator can set the
default for new users, to make the problem absolutely solvable on systems where
printers do their own collation all the time (which is most modern laser
printers and copiers).
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