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Bug#294471: marked as done (Hidden/hard-to-find "Print Ranges" make it very difficult to print the pages you want to print)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #294471,
regarding Hidden/hard-to-find "Print Ranges" make it very difficult to print the pages you want to print
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Package: openoffice.org-bin
Version: 1.1.2dfsg1-3
Severity: normal

  I'm trying to print several sheets of a spreadsheet file using
OpenOffice Calc.  In fact, I'd be happy to print the whole file.
However, if I just select "print" from the menu, Calc prints two
particular sheets (the 1st and 7th, if it matters).  If I select one or
more sheets and try to print only the selected sheets, it prints the
intersection of my selection and the two sheets in question.  If
I don't select either of the two sheets, nothing gets printed at all.
Incidentally, the file in question was imported from Excel; maybe the
import filter is doing something that confuses the rest of the program?

  *later*

  Okay, after much more fiddling, I found the problem.  There were two "print 
ranges" in the file with names like "Excel_Builtin_Print_Area_1", that 
spanned the two sheets that Calc insisted on printing.  Once I removed them, 
I was able to print any set of sheets that I wanted.

  There are two problems here.  Both are apparently "just" usability problems, 
but they're so severe that I think they should be counted as bugs.

    (1) it's not at all obvious that a print range is in use when you go to 
print the spreadsheet, so the problem seems very mysterious at first glance.  
This is especially true if, like me when I started investigating this, you 
don't even know that "print ranges" exist in OpenOffice.  I still don't know 
much about them; for instance, is it possible to define a print range and not 
use it?  Empirical evidence suggests "yes" (see below)..

       I think that the print ranges should be listed in the printing dialog 
and the user should be able to select them there (possibly with a default to 
the last ones chosen).  At least that would make it more obvious what the 
factors affecting the printing are.

    (2) once you realize that a print range is in use, it's not at all obvious 
how to turn it off.  There's a "remove" option in Format -> Print Ranges, but 
it's disabled!  The only way I found to get rid of them was to go into the 
Navigator (which is how I found the ranges in the first place, while trying 
unfamiliar menu items at random), double-click on each range to select it, 
and THEN do Format -> Print Ranges -> Remove (which is enabled once you 
select some cells, apparently).  And even that doesn't delete the defined 
range; in fact, I'm not quite sure what it does, aside from making the whole 
document print like I wanted in the first place.

  Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages openoffice.org-bin depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.4.30.11       Debian configuration management 
sy
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D 
graphi
ii  libaudio2                1.7-2           The Network Audio System (NAS). 
(s
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
an
ii  libcurl3                 7.12.3-2        Multi-protocol file transfer 
libra
ii  libdb4.2++               4.2.52-17       Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries 
f
ii  libfontconfig1           2.2.3-4         generic font configuration 
library
ii  libfreetype6             2.1.7-2.3       FreeType 2 font engine, shared 
lib
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-6       GCC support library
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmyspell3              1:3.1-10        MySpell spellchecking library
ii  libneon23                0.23.9.dfsg.3-2 An HTTP and WebDAV client library 
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session 
Management
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-5       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libstlport4.6            4.6.2-2         STLport C++ class library
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client 
li
ii  libxaw7                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous 
exte
ii  libxt6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  openoffice.org           1.1.2dfsg1-3    high-quality office productivity 
s
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) 
configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtime

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Dear submitter,

as the package openoffice.org has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/706870

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

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