On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:15:18 +0100 Brian Barker <[email protected]> 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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
