Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed
On 4/7/22, Gareth Evans <donotspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land>
> 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
Just poking my nose in to say that syslog might be an example of that.
That's speaking from the annoying firsthand experience of having
something like /var/log/syslog loaded in the Mousepad text editor. It
will keep announcing that the content changed behind the scenes so do
I want to refresh to view that newest addition (or some similar
advisement).
Cindy :)
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