Bug 160823

Summary:	PRINTING PDF Allow to select which section to print/export
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	romain2boss
Component:	Printing and PDF export	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEEDINFO ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dgp-mail, stephane.guillou
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161059
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Description romain2boss 2024-04-25 17:47:58 UTC

Both Print dialog and Export in PDF dialog allow to select which page to print/export. When you want to limit to certain sections of the document, one needs to identify on which page they are.

Proposal is to allow the user to select sections/part of the tree of headings and the software will determine which pages to print/export.

It can be done by having the option to select headings or by having a window to select the headings and then it populates the Page field to print/export.

When reviewing a document (in paper) or sharing it, such function would be very handy.

Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-05-13 11:27:19 UTC

What about these alternatives:

- Selecting in the body of the text the part you need, then using "Selection" in the PDF/Print dialogs
- Using the Navigator sidebar deck with Content Navigation View activated, doing a multi-selection of heading, then printing that selection as above
- Another workaround: creating a new document that contains only a part of the original as a section: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/export-only-certain-section/13261

Wouldn't that be sufficient?