Re: [office] Public comment #20 -- default print range in tables

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

A few other scenarios:

1) A user loads a ODF spreadsheet document where no
print range was specified.  They select a range of cells and click
the print button.  What prints?  The selected range?  Or
the default range?  Note that they have not saved the document with
the new print range yet.

2) A user loads an ODF spreadsheet document with a
pre-defined print range.  They select a range of cells and click the
print button.  What prints?  The selected range?  Or the
stored print range?  Note that they have not saved the document with
the new print range yet.

3) A user loads a ODF spreadsheet document where no
print range was specified. The user clicks the print button.  The
application queries the user for what range they want to print.


My point here is that runtime print behavior is more
complicated than what we are saying in the standard.  The stored print
range expresses what the document author set as the preferred print range.
 But it does not determine what is printed the next time.  It
can be overridden by the user, in the application, without changing the
file.  So it is really a hint or a preference.   

Similarly, the lack of a specified print range could
invoke some logic to calculate a default print range, or it could be pre-selected
by the user in the UI (again, without changing the stored document) or
the user could be prompted for this information.

Once we go down the road of defining runtime print
behavior of applications, we need to deal with more than just the data
in the document.  It gets messy very quickly.

-Rob