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Print Ranges

Specification Status
Author	Regina Henschel
Last Change
Status (Help)	Preliminary

Abstract

Describes details for the sub-item Print Ranges… in the menu Format in Calc.

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Detailed Specification

Motivation

The OpenDocument specification defines the attributes table:print and table:print-ranges, which need an appropriate UI in Calc.

Three settings are possible

table:print=”false”

The worksheet is not printed.

table:print=”true” and no print ranges defined

The smallest rectangle cell range is printed, that contains all used cells.

table:print=”true” and print ranges are defined.

The print ranges are printed.

These attributes are not visible to the user, but used in the file format.

The current UI has a lot of short comings:

• The current item Print Range does not only lead to defining and altering print ranges, but it contains managing of repeat column and repeat row too. The user has no hint, that this settings are inside the edit dialog of print ranges and do not find them. Therefore they should be moved away and get an own dialog.
• The edit dialog of print ranges shows the list of ranges in one long line. The user cannot see the ranges all at once and editing is inconvenient. If the user wants to remove or alter a range, he has to move horizontally in the input field.
• The user cannot set the variant table:print=”true” and no print ranges defined in the first level of the current sub-menu, but has to open the edit dialog.
• The user cannot remove one single print range with the item Remove, but has to open the edit dialog.
• The user does not know, which setting is used, when he removes all print ranges. It should be the setting table:print=”true” and no print ranges defined but today it is the setting table:print=”false”.
• The value entire sheet is misleading, because not the entire worksheet is printed, but only the area of the used cells.
• The user has no information about the current setting unless he opens the edit dialog.

Format > Print Ranges

The item Print Ranges opens a sub-menu. It contains

No Print
Automatic
User-defined…
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Define
Add
Remove

No Print

Sets table:print=”false”. The worksheet is not printed. If any print ranges exist, they are not deleted but only disabled. They can be reused via dialog. Clicking this item effects all selected worksheets.

Automatic

Sets table:print=”true”. If any print ranges exist, they are deleted. The list has then the only entry - Automatic -. The smallest rectangle cell range is printed, that contains all used cells. Clicking this item effects all selected worksheets.

User-defined…

Opens a dialog to manage print ranges.

Define

Sets the current selection as print ranges. If the worksheet has print ranges defined before, they are deleted. If the worksheet was set to No Print the attribute table:print is set to true automatically. Clicking this item effects all selected worksheets.

Add

Adds the current selection to the list of print ranges. If the worksheet was set to No Print the current selection becomes the first items in the list and the attribute table:print is set to true automatically. Clicking this item effects all selected worksheets.

Remove

If a print range exists, that contains all currently selected cells or—if nothing is selected—the currently active cell, then this print range is deleted. If no print range meets the condition nothing is done. If the only print range is deleted, the print range list is set to - Automatic -. Clicking this item effects all selected worksheets.

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