Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc > File > Print > Options > 'Use only paper size from printer preferences' - checking pref will not stick

Yes, there could be a bug doing it, or sometimes it can be the "drivers".

If I print out a 13x19 inch sheet on the wide format printer, most of 
the time I get that same page size as the "default selected size" when 
go to the printing on a letter size laser printer.  So I have to watch 
for that.  IT happens in other packages as well as LO.  So it may be the 
drivers with Linux.

So I think it may be the printer drivers, since it allows me to print 
13x19 inch paper on a printer that prints no larger than 8.5x14 inch.  
This shows up in GIMP, and a few other packages besides LO.  So I say it 
may be the drivers or something in the printing "system" for Linux Mint 
16 and Ubuntu 12.04/13.xx.  I have not tried it with 14.04, yet.

The problem with having LO know which paper sizes a printer uses may be 
a problem.  Each printer driver needs to be able to tell LO, correctly, 
what are the only paper sizes it can use.  That could be a large listing 
for some of the printers when you get involved in all of the different 
"International" page size names and such.  Some sizes, like Tabloid have 
one or two other names associated with it, like "B" and "B borderless".  
Right now, one Linux version seems to likes "B" and "B borderless", 
while Windows uses "Tabloid" most often.  My wide format printer seems 
to have over 50 different paper sizes listed [via the Printer viewing 
package for Linux and not LO's listing].  Then LO would need to remember 
all of those sizes and all of the ones that the other 3 printers use, 
that is on my network.  Of course, you would also need to add the paper 
sizes you use in your area of the world. For me, you take out things 
like A4 and the other ones that are not used in the USA.  Would you want 
LO to try to remember all of that?  How do you add that to the printing 
option[s], or even the export to PDF option[s] to give you only the 
paper sizes that you use?



On 05/02/2014 07:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ok, this is driving me crazy...
>
> I have figured out that my current problem can easily be resolved by 
> simply ticking the checkbox referred to in the subject of this email:
>
> Open a Calc document, then
>
> file > Print > Options and check the box "Use only paper size from 
> printer preferences"
>
> The problem is, there doesn't seem to be any way to force this box to 
> be checked all the time.
>
> Anyone have any ideas how I might do that?
>
> Libreoffice apparently has some long standing bugs when it comes to 
> automatically handling paper sizes on the windows platform - point in 
> case, its total failure when it comes to Tabloid printing on Windows 
> (bug 65205, that I opened a year ago, but struggled with for many 
> months before that before finally figuring out it was a Libreoffice 
> bug as opposed to a print driver issue):
>
> https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65205
>
> But the bug existed at least as far back as 2010, from this AOO bug:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=112863
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles


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