Default print range option

[Keith Curtis]

I have just created a 64 page programme for our folk festival and needed to print individual pages for proofing and always had to change from "document" to "current" which was very time consuming every single time and then when printing off individual signs for the festival I forgot and printed off about 20 wasted pages before I managed to halt the printing process wasting a lot of paper and yellow ink as I normally turn of the yellow layer and print directly onto yellow paper.

What would be great would be to have the option to make "current" page the default and only choose the whole document when needed in other words reversing the default.

Cheers
Keith

[Alfred]

A simple suggestion, but a great one. One wasted page is annoying, but 63 wasted pages is at least 63 times as annoying!

[walt.farrell]

I agree this would need to be an option. Or perhaps it could just remember the last options you chose.

[Alfred]

28 minutes ago, Red Sands said:

Or better yet, Affinity remembers the last selected print range also between program runs.

 

27 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I agree this would need to be an option. Or perhaps it could just remember the last options you chose.

An option for this is preferable, in my opinion. If the app simply remembers the last print range and that happened to be the entire document, you’re back to square one.

[Paul Collins]

Make the Print Range selection "sticky" i.e. it remembers your last selection for Print Range the next time you print. This is now the case in the Export dialog (in Designer anyway), where it remembers "Selection Only" between uses. Please can we have the same here...

[PaulEC]

This is my biggest problem with Affinity software – the great reluctance to make settings "sticky"! – I just do not understand why Serif think it is better to have settings continually going back to a setting chosen by the developers, rather than one chosen by the user!

[Done]

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[Sean Mandrake]

The amount of waste prints I throw in the bin because Affinty always reverts to 'Range: Document' is huge!
Back in the day, every single version of PagePlus I paid for (since 2.0) would 'remember' when I set it to 'Current Page' and this worked well.
The accidental environmental waste generated from defaulting to this option every time is truly horrific. Not to mention wasted toner, paper, ink, time and money.
This really needs to be addressed.

Edited February 7, 2024 by Sean Mandrake

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Sean Mandrake said:

This really needs to be addressed.

I agree. In the meantime, if your printer offers a Preview option, you might consider enabling it so you can see exactly what will be printed before wasting the paper.

[Keith Curtis]

 

Loads of great answers. To remember last setting would be great (could be a simple tick box alongside the drop down list)  as it would count for about ninety percent of my printing. I am printing specific replacement festival signs today on heavy duty paper and just printed the first twenty that I did not need!!!! 🤬

Looks like Serif don't see it as important so I will need to go old school and put a fluorescent postit in the top left hand corner of the screen with PRINT CURRENT on it.
Thanks for the feedback anyway.

[Keith Curtis]

I figured a way of using the keyboard instead of the mouse to create a regular sequence and not so slow and fiddly.

Ctr P
Tab 5 times
Letter "C"   = current
Enter
Hope this helps 😉

[Paul Collins]

5 minutes ago, Keith Curtis said:

I figured a way of using the keyboard instead of the mouse to create a regular sequence and not so slow and fiddly.

Ctr P
Tab 5 times
Letter "C"   = current
Enter
Hope this helps 😉

Excellent idea @Keith Curtis - just thinking (not tried yet) that I could potentially even program a spare button on my mouse to do the whole sequence in a single click

[Radioastron]

22 minutes ago, Keith Curtis said:

I figured a way of using the keyboard instead of the mouse to create a regular sequence and not so slow and fiddly.

Ctr P
Tab 5 times
Letter "C"   = current
Enter
Hope this helps 😉

Thank you very much for sharing those shortcuts!

When I was younger, I used to get completely lost in drawing software because I never thought about using them. It felt so unproductive scrolling through all the settings with a mouse. Now, just pressing a single button makes such a difference and I'm starting to look like I'm savvy about it all 😄

[Paul Collins]

Dear Affinity Support

I very regularly Export to PDF in the latest version of Designer (2.5.5), but it STILL forgets my last Area setting which is always "Selection Only" in my workflow, when I do my next export 5 minutes later it has defaulted back to Whole document. 

It seems I have been putting up with this issue for years now.

The reason I am writing again now, is because I have just done some exports to SVG and here, when you set it to "Selection Only" it WORKS CORRECTLY and remembers this for my next export 5 minutes later. Surely you could just "copy and paste" this working SVG code into the PDF code and fix it? A 5-minute job, tops!

I already don't have much hair left so please, please , pretty please can you fix this issue on your next release?

Thanks in advance

Nearly bald Paul

[fde101]

1 hour ago, Paul Collins said:

and remembers this for my next export 5 minutes later

Are you repeatedly exporting from the same document?

Wondering if you might do well to work with slices in the Export persona?

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, fde101 said:

Wondering if you might do well to work with slices in the Export persona?

... and use, for example, the Continuous option, when the slice is exported automatically when its content changes, so you don't have to click Export every 5 minutes.

[Paul Collins]

@fde101@PšendaThanks for this information. I have just watched a tutorial on this on YouTube. I never realised this capability existed. I will try it with my workflow next week.

Meanwhile, @Affinity Support please still fix this tiny weeny bug in 2.6

Thanks

Paul