[Issue 125085] New: Inability to Print Comments In Sidebar = Useless in Real World

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https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125085

          Issue ID: 125085
        Issue Type: DEFECT
           Summary: Inability to Print Comments In Sidebar = Useless in
                    Real World
           Product: Writer
           Version: 4.1.0
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Windows Vista
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: editing
          Assignee: issues@openoffice.apache.org
          Reporter: radfem@gmail.com

Note to Developers: Those of us using OO for writing critique groups look poor
in many ways next to group participants using Word with it's printable sidebar
for editing. The print dialogue option to print comments at the bottom of the
page (in actuality though, on a separate page) is fairly useless because here's
what an edit looks like as things now stand:

Page : 1 Line : 9 Author : John Doe 06/10/2014
cut


The "cut" HAD been referenced to an unnecessary word (specifically "the"), and
marked/highlighted on the screen, with nice dotted lines to the sidebar comment
of "cut", and so clearly understood on the screen, but useless on physical
paper (ie: the Real World), since as it now stands, the edit appears to ask the
writer to cut Line 9 entirely.  Moreover, if I took an extra step and said "cut
'the'", the reader might think another "the" was to be cut, rather than the one
I meant.  I suppose if I were in a position to revamp a writing critique group,
I could make the entire process electronic, but alas, I am not in that
position. Nor do all participants own a laptop to bring to a meeting to be able
to follow along during a discussion.

This can't be a problem for just writers/editors. Can you say if/when you will
make the Comments Sidebar printable? Otherwise, it is not something useable for
a hardcopy.  Lastly, it would be a valuable tool if it were printable.

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[Issue 125085] Inability to Print Comments In Sidebar = Useless in Real World

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[Issue 125085] Inability to Print Comments In Sidebar = Useless in Real World

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mroe <mr...@gmx.net> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from mroe <mr...@gmx.net> ---
Please attach an .docx with different comments and a PDF created from this file
to reproduce the described behaviour.

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[Issue 125085] Inability to Print Comments In Sidebar = Useless in Real World

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--- Comment #2 from Todd <To...@gmail.com> ---
I was able to replicate the reported behavior using AOO Version 4.0.1 Build
9714 on Windows 7 OS SP1 so this appears to not be isolated to a single version
or OS.
To replicate this behavior:
1.    Using MS Word, I added sidebar comments to an existing .docx file.
2.    Saved and Closed the file.
3.    Opened the file using AOO.
4.    Use Ctrl+P to display the Print dialog.
5.    Select page range and a highlighted Print Comments option from the
drop-down.

6.    Printed the document.

I chose to place the comments at the end of the page and it was done…see the
following example:
Page : 4 Line : 78 Author : 06/18/2014
A QA role should be represented here. For repository tracability at the very
least
Architecture doesn’t provide appropriate scalability based on projections.
Page : 5 Line : 94 Author : 06/18/2014
A QA role should be represented here. For repository tracability at the very
least
Architecture doesn’t provide appropriate scalability based on projections.
This behavior IS AS DESIGNED, although if line numbers aren’t visible on the
page, it would be difficult for a person who is unfamiliar with the document to
know what the comment was in reference to, and in this aspect, I do agree with
the reporter that the feature may be ‘fairly useless’.
This bug did not appear to be related to any others in the database.
When replicating this behavior, there was a very interesting observation.
The original file in which the sidebar comments were entered, contained the
following comments, which are both separated and unique:
Comment 1 : A QA role should be represented here. For repository tracability at
the very least
Comment 2: Architecture doesn’t provide appropriate scalability based on
projections.


But when that same document is opened in AOO, the comments are combined and the
identical text appears in both areas…see below.


Also, the logos that appear in the original document do not appear in the AOO
version.
Although this appears to work as designed, it would be of greater benefit to
users if the printed hardcopy were more like the on screen display and the MS
Word equivalent, which makes the comments reference context more intuitive.

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