Issue 17787 - Add Button "Print Preview" to Print Dialog
Summary: Add Button "Print Preview" to Print Dialog
Status: CLOSED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: All All
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: rfe_eval_ok
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Reported: 2003-08-02 09:03 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2017-05-20 09:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Unknown 2003-08-02 09:03:33 UTC
When one clicks print, a print window opens. It would be nice to have a button
here which lets the user directly go to print-preview and page-setup.  Same
thing for the print-preview window and page-setup window. (I hope this is only
one feature and not counted as three...if so I will be happy to open 3 bug
enhancements.

Regards,

Edward
Comment 1 rblackeagle 2003-08-03 06:50:05 UTC
Would it not suffice that Print Preview lets you decide to print it? 
That takes care of print from within print-preview.  By clicking on
File > Print Setup, you can set up what you want. There is also a
button to change margins and other settings for printing the page.

Please take a look at these in RC2 and see if that works.  (Sorry, I'm
not a developer or QA person, just someone interested in seeing that
OOo is the best Office program out there.)  If it still doesn't
provide what you want, please let us know.  I think there may be only
one thing you lack instead of three because you can use Page Preview
to do almost everything you mention.
Comment 2 Unknown 2003-08-03 07:24:47 UTC
Thanks Robert but when I print directly from page preview, it prints
all the pages not just the preview page.  

At the moment lets say I have about 10 sheets in a spreadsheet and I
have made my workings in sheet 4 and in all individual sheets, I have
defined a print range as this will help me store "fit to page" etc
settings for each sheet.

This file is worked upon every month.  Lets say in this month I have
to reprint data which is on sheet 6 only.  What I need to do is go to
page 6 and do print preview, from that print preview I take the page
number and then go to file,print and enter that page number there. 
This page number will not be 6 but will be 5 or something else
depending upon how many print ranges are defined in individual sheets.

If the spreadsheet application can tell the sheet number(which it does
now) and the print page number when I am in a particular sheet(which
it does not at the moment) this will also solve the issue, I beleive.

This can be further enhanced by showing a different colour box of the
print range.

Regards,

Edward
Comment 3 ooo 2003-08-04 13:46:11 UTC
not an API issue, seems to be a spreadsheet app issue
Comment 4 Unknown 2003-08-05 11:45:49 UTC
Under writer this feature works fine...for example if I am on page 3
of a writer document containing 5 pages, and I go to print, the
selection automatically puts page 3 there and not 1-5.
Comment 5 oc 2003-08-07 10:37:15 UTC
Hi Bettina, one4you
Comment 6 bettina.haberer 2004-01-29 20:13:23 UTC
Summary: When one clicks print, a print window opens. It would be nice to have a
button here which lets the user directly go to print-preview and page-setup. 

This issue is considered for OO.o later.
Comment 7 hansel 2004-03-17 20:08:38 UTC
I too would like this feature especially when printing a selection I would like
to be able to see right before I hit print what my selected cells are going to
turn out like on paper.
Comment 8 jeanniemcquaid 2004-11-03 20:10:38 UTC
I was also surprised to find that printing directly from Print Preview printed 
all ranges on all the spreadsheets in the workbook.  I set up my spreadsheet 
options for printing to "Print only selected sheets" because many of my 
spreadsheet files are one sheet per month, consolidating on a Year to Date 
sheet.  Naturally, I only want to print the current month and YTD at any given 
time.  If printing from Print Preview honoured this preference, it would solve 
the printing ambiguity.
Comment 9 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:01:47 UTC
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements". 
Comment 10 fafehr 2010-10-23 21:40:33 UTC
This issue really needs attention.  I've also found it counter-intuitive that 
when I want to print a selection of cells, Calc has absolutely no way of 
showing the results without (potentially) wasting paper. I work around this by 
first printing it to a virtual printer like Cute PDF, but again, there aught to 
be just that simple 'Print Preview' button in the print dialog box.
Comment 11 Rainer Bielefeld 2014-04-16 09:53:50 UTC
AOO has a print preview in the print dialog, so the original request has become obsolete. 

For all the rest please submit additional Issue reports if still reproducible with current AOO versions.