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Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

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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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Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-02 19:30 +0200
  Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Bob McGowan <ramjr98@yahoo.com> - 2022-04-02 20:30 +0200
    Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-02 23:20 +0200
      Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Bob McGowan <tumcsv@gmail.com> - 2022-04-04 05:00 +0200
        Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-05 00:30 +0200
  Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-07 11:20 +0200
    Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2022-04-07 11:50 +0200
      Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-08 03:50 +0200
        Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-08 13:40 +0200
          Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-04-08 14:20 +0200
            Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-08 21:30 +0200
            Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-04-10 14:30 +0200
              Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-10 17:30 +0200
                Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-04-11 16:10 +0200
                Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-11 19:40 +0200
            Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2022-04-12 01:00 +0200
      Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-04-08 18:20 +0200
        Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-04-08 18:40 +0200
        Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-08 20:00 +0200
        Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-08 23:50 +0200

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