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Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/upf8nw/fixed_o...

Opening a spreadsheet, even if you don't want to print it, will hang for 30 seconds doing nothing, because LibreOffice will load the printer settings for the document, which means asking the printer, which if the printer is network-based and turned off, means a 30 second wait for a timeout.

Reported in 2011, still not fixed: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673



This... 100 times. Everyday wastes my few minutes. 5 figure commercial application, state of art in it's domain, but somehow It has to wait for that unresponsive network printer and hang the startup UI.


Best workaround (still ridiculous that it hasn't been fixed) is to set a PDF printer as your default printer.


I frequently have to do this for a different reason on MacOS/iOS. Printing directly sends bad PCL to my printer and makes it spew garbage pages.

"Print to PDF -> print the PDF" is much more reliable.

sigh


> Reported in 2011, still not fixed: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673

Perhaps spurred by this comment, there was new discussion in the report and it turned out Microsoft has fixed the issue in Windows 11: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673#c8...

Quote:

"I was one of the many who reported this problem in one from or another. The problem is Windows-specific. I have found out that the problem actually comes from the Windows print system. There is no way to check that a printer is actually active or working or even present without incurring a long time-out in case the printer is not present or powered. Trying to check the defualt printer will incur the same time-out.

Calc apparently wants to check the printer to know how to construct its layout, and has to wait for the time-out to continue.

Some of the comments that claim that Calc hangs and never returns have probably not waited long enough for the timeout.

On my new Windows 11 computer, this printer system behavior has been changed and I no longer experience a delay while opening Calc."


I don't recall spreadsheets ever having any visible printer formatting until the point at which you print them? So surely it's not even a case of "even if you don't want to print it"?




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