Issue 22066 - Cannot set PDF options
Summary: Cannot set PDF options
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Impress
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P2 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: wolframgarten
QA Contact: issues@graphics
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Reported: 2003-11-03 18:29 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2007-04-05 22:36 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2003-11-03 18:29:50 UTC 
Toolbar button for PDF export and menu entry open exactly the same export window.
Actually the toolbar button is linked to the "export directly as pdf" function,
while the menu entry is linked to "export as pdf".  The two should be different.
Particularly, following the docs, the latter should open a window for setting up
the export options.  Actually both functions do the same: they open a file name
selection dialogue.
Comment 1 wolframgarten 2003-11-04 07:44:23 UTC 
Actually the menu entry does open a window for setting the export
options: after specifying the filename.
The button in the toolbar uses the last used settings(from the menu)
and export directly after setting the filename.
There is a difference, just go after the filename dialog.
Comment 2 wolframgarten 2003-11-04 07:44:35 UTC 
Closed.
Comment 3 ed_g2s 2007-03-31 17:11:44 UTC 
This still seems very counter-intuitive. I spent a long time searching the web
for an answer to this, and saw a whole forum topic devoted to trying to figure
this out. The expected process for export in any program is Export -> Options ->
Destination, not Export -> Destination -> Options.

Suggest reopening as enhancement.
Comment 4 wolframgarten 2007-04-02 08:06:14 UTC 
"Export to pdf" uses the normal export dialog just with the presettings for pdf.
That's why the there is first destination, then options.
Comment 5 ed_g2s 2007-04-05 22:36:52 UTC 
Are you giving the technical reason for why it is currently coded that way
around, or trying to explain why it should be that way around?

Either way, it definitely shouldn't be. Users will always expect the destination
dialog to be the last one.