[Solved] How to print current page ?

[bluegroper]

Most office suites appear to have an option to "Print Current Page" in their printer dialog boxes.
Printing just the current page from OO seems unnecessarily clumsy.
Could this omission of a "Current Page" option in the printer dialog be a design oversight ?
Is this a deliberate "feature" or should this be listed as a bug ?

[keme]

It may be a deliberate decision. I don't know. Possible reasoning:

As I see it, "current page" is the place you are editing, i.e. the page where the insertion point (cursor) is. View can be scrolled independently of the insertion point, so you may be looking at page 15 while the insertion point is at page 42. Which page should be output from "print current page"?

Taking it a step further, scrolled view can contain parts of several pages, and even several full pages if you set a low zoom factor. Again, which page should be output?

Requiring the user to explicitly state page number for printing a single page may seem cumbersome, but it may also avoid a few misprints.

[John_Ha]

Is this a deliberate "feature" or should this be listed as a bug ?

A deliberate feature. It is not a bug which is "something which used to work but does not work now".

Either key in the page number, or highlight the page and choose Print Selection.

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[Zizi64]

Printing just the current page from OO seems unnecessarily clumsy.
Could this omission of a "Current Page" option in the printer dialog be a design oversight ?
Is this a deliberate "feature" or should this be listed as a bug ?

The print dialog of the LibreOffice (tested in my 5.4.7 version) shows the page number of the current page in the second item.

You must select it only, not needed adjust the number.

My tip is:
Try the LibreOffice

[John_Ha]

The print dialog of the LibreOffice (tested in my 5.4.7 version) shows the page number of the current page in the second item.

You must select it only, not needed adjust the number.

My tip is: Try the LibreOffice

That's because you only have one page in your document - AOO is the same. Now try it with two pages ...

[Zizi64]

That's because you only have one page in your document

Absolutely not.
See the screensot above. The forced Page break is shown on the picture. (I am using the dialogs of the LibreOffice.)

Here a more informative picture (the cursor is in the second page):

[John_Ha]

OK - it's different in LO!

[bluegroper]

Thanks for all the comments above. Much appreciated.
In summary, we think the LO printing solution is superior to OO. Its an irritation to manually select the current page, identified by location of cursor.
AFAIK MS Word also lets user print the current page (based on location of cursor).
Despite this shortcoming, we'll not be rushing to changeover to LO, since ATM there's some other minor features of OO that we prefer.
Many pros and cons of LO vs OO. Any decision is a balance between all of them.

[Zizi64]

AFAIK MS Word also lets user print the current page (based on location of cursor).

You can write (but not record) a macro for this task in AOO or LO.

[bluegroper]

AFAIK MS Word also lets user print the current page (based on location of cursor).

You can write (but not record) a macro for this task in AOO or LO.

Thats exactly where I want to take this. (How did you know ? Perhaps its a common use case.)
For years I had an MS Word macro to print the current page directly to the default printer using all default settings. No interruptions, just print the single page.

Clearly I'm going to need to learn about writing (not just recording) macros in OO.
Pleases and thankyous for any tips or clues that will take me successfully in this direction so that I can overcome this printing issue.

[Zizi64]

Download and study Andrew Pitonyak's free macro books.
http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php



Maybe these topics will help you:

First you need get the number of the actual page...
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=65434
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=68293
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=13704

..then you need control the print procedure
http://ooo-forums.apache.org/en/forum/v ... 3&p=160780
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question ... fic-sheet/

(The sample codes was written in various programming languages, but the calling of the API functions are similar. You need study the API functions first, then you will able to write your code in your preferred language (what are supported by the AOO/LO).)

[bluegroper]

Tibor
Thanks so much for your reply.
I've some learning to do, also encouraged by this snippet from the materials you referenced above.

5.6.1. Print Current Page

Code: Select all

Listing 5.8:Print only the current page.
Dim aPrintOps(0) As New com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
oDoc = ThisComponent
oVCurs = oDoc.CurrentController.getViewCursor()
aPrintOps(0).Name = "Pages"
aPrintOps(0).Value = trim(str(oVCurs.getPage()))
oDoc.print(aPrintOps())

More thanks and power to you.

[LWH]

I had the same problem. I initially solved it by printing by using "File" "Print" instead of the print button. I then looked into the visable buttons options. The default button is "Print File Directly". Put your mouse over this button and right click and select visable buttons. Scroll down until you get to the two print buttons. Deselect "Print File Directly" and select "Print". This button will only print the active sheet.