Re: [libreoffice-users] How to print a section of a SS

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:15:18 +0100
Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

> At 17:45 19/10/2021 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:05:10 +0100 Brian Barker wrote:  
> > > At 11:53 19/10/2021 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:  
> > > > On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:51:19 -0400 Alan Bonly wrote:  
> > > > > It hasn't been mentioned if the OP is printing to PDF, and my bad 
> > > > > for never reporting the bug, but using LibreOffice File>Export as 
> > > > > PDF or  the Export Directly as PDF icon causes EVERYTHING on all 
> > > > > tabs to print to the PDF no matter what print range might be 
> > > > > specified, no matter if the print ranges are deleted then 
> > > > > selected anew. EVERYTHING  gets dumped into a PDF.  
> > > >
> > > > I don't think that's a bug. [...]  
> > >
> > > The documentation thinks it is a bug. Under "Using print ranges", 
> > > it says: "You can define which range of cells on a spreadsheet are 
> > > to be printed or exported to a PDF. The cells on the sheet that are 
> > > not part of the defined print range are not printed or exported. 
> > > Also, any sheets without a defined print range are not printed or
> > > exported."  
> >
> > The documentation thinks what's a bug, exactly? Alan claimed that if 
> > you try to print as a PDF then everything gets printed, without any 
> > choice. You appear to be stating that the documentation coincides 
> > with reality, which is exactly the opposite and what I said. Thus 
> > what Alan claimed is a bug is NOT a bug. Or are we somehow at cross
> > purposes?  
>
> I think you do misunderstand me; perhaps I was a little brief. The 
> original claim was that exporting to PDF takes no account of defined 
> print ranges and exports the entire document. (I didn't check that or 
> experiment with it.)

Well that's the absolute basis of the whole conversation, so that's
absolutely the first thing I did!

> We are not talking about the separate facility, 
> in the print and export dialogues, to print or export the currently 
> selected range, are we?

Don't care. They all behave the same or similar.

> You suggested that it was not a bug: in other 
> words, that you expected export as PDF should disregard defined print 
> ranges, as we were told it did.

No I suggested it was not a bug and that it did work exactly as
everybody else expected it would and as documented apparently (I didn't
check the documentation :)  You needed to actually read what I wrote
after that one sentence and try to understand the whole message.

> But the documentation about print 
> ranges makes clear that they are supposed to apply equally to 
> printing and exporting, in other words that exporting to PDF should 
> export only material within any defined print ranges and not other
> material.
>
> Brian Barker  

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