On Thu 07 Apr 2022 at 10:45:46 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' > > > > > Does anyone have any insight into why this is an option? More > > specifically, what reason would anyone want to have their document > > marked as modified because they printed it? > > I wondered about that too and looked into it. I now can't find the > references I found, either in my browser history or by re-searching, but > iirc, Apple[-related] and LibreOffice forum posts suggested it's to do with: > > LO: MS Word does it, so LO does it / because fields in the document may be > automatically updated prior to printing > > Apple: Pages documents include a "last printed" property which gets updated > when the doc is printed - which suggests there's no option in that case. > > Not sure of the accuracy of either report...
… nor of my memory. I was never a wysiwy(d)g person, but I do remember when many people started using Macs back in the '80s. When they selected a printer, typically adjustments were made to the document to suit the settings in the printer, and then they'd save the document, which AIUI retained those settings. To them, that seemed a normal part of the document metaphor. Sometimes, of course, those tiny adjustments would cause major changes in layout (like when the next figure doesn't _quite_ fit on the bottom of a page), which caused a great deal of frustration. OTOH when I printed my PDFs on, say, a printer whose paper gripper created an oversize margin, I'd imperceptibly shrink the documents to fit, but the original LaTeX source files would obviously be unaffected, as would the layout. Of course, I'd have to make my own note of any changes if I wanted to repeat them in future. Cheers, David.
