https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159995

--- Comment #24 from M-Rick <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Patrick (volunteer) from comment #17)
> As I mentioned in comment #14, there is a workaround using LibreOffice's
> non-native print dialog. To use the workaround, do the following steps:
> 
> 1. Download and install the a nightly master build dated 31 December or
> later using the steps in comment #14.
> 
> 2. Launch /Applications/LibreOfficeDev.app (i.e. the default installation
> location for nightly master builds).
> 
> 3. Select the LibreOffice > Settings menu item (or LibreOffice > Preferences
> in older macOS versions) and in the Options dialog that appears, select
> LibreOfficeDev > Advanced in the sidebar on the left.
> 
> 4. In the sidebar on the right, click the Open Expert Configuration button.
> In the dialog that appears, search for UseSystemPrintDialog and then change
> UseSystemPrintDialog to false".
> 
> 5. Press the OK button to close each of the above dialogs, open your
> document, and print using either selecting the File > Print menu item or
> pressing Command-P.
> 
> 6. The non-native print dialog should appear. Set the print settings like in
> attachment #198331 [details] and press the Print button.
> 
> One big limitation with this workaround is that the setting the non-native
> print dialog's printer to "Print to File..." has some bugs and won't allow
> you to change the paper size so you can only set the printer to a real
> printer.
> 
> So, if you only want to output a PDF file, you will need to also install a
> "print to PDF" printer. I use the following free, open source "print to PDF"
> printer which basically just takes any print output sent to it and writes
> the output to a PDF file in your ~/PDFWriter folder:
> 
> https://github.com/rodyager/RWTS-PDFwriter/releases

Your workaround is perfect! I even got it working with the 24.2 version as
well!
Thank you.

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