Why is Printing Considered a Change?

[Hwy101]

I am curious, why is printing considered a change?
( I open, print, close -Xara asks me if I want to 'Save' changes -there have been none )

[ad1066]

I've always wondered about that myself. Though to be fair, this behavior is not exclusive to Xara. If I open a Word document I'd created previously, and print to CutePDF, it asks if I want to save the doc when I close Word, even if I didn't make any changes.

-- Ben

[mwenz]

If one changes which printer XDP is going to, it is considered a change. Unlike Word, which remembers which printer it is composing the print job to, XDP forgets, but it is still thoughtful enough to consider it a change. I suspect it is setting and reading the "isDirty" flag, but not saving the changed printer to the file.

At least that's what my XDP does. If I only open it and print to the default printer, it doesn't ask to save it.

Take care, Mike

[amoore]

Is retaining the designated printer an OS thing? I'm still using Win XP. On my system, XDP7 does not consider a change in the printer to be a change in the document.

XDP7 remembers the printer until the end of the session or until it's changed. When I reopen XDP, it goes again to the default printer until I change it. That's also true in XDP6.

BTW, I'm familiar with printer retention as part of a file. I've used that for years in WordPro. However, I've never seen Word do it.

[The Alien]

Exporting (to jpg, png etc.) is considered a change too, in X1.

[Hwy101]

I noticed that too...

[Richard S]

some programs remember the print settings from job to job so assume printing in those cases would be something the program would need saving for that to happen.
If I print to PDF (Bluebeam) from Word it actually writes something to the Word file so I am told.

[amoore]

I have Bluebeam 9 and Word 2003 on this machine. BB won't print to pdf from Word 2003 via the normal print dialog, although it does in other apps. A "now printing" message box pops up, but no file is created. No prompt for saving is displayed when I exit the file.

BB does generate a pdf when I use the "Create PDF" command on the Bluebeam menu. When I exit the file, I do get a save prompt. During the same Word session, I can reopen the file and it will show BB as the selected printer (as it would for any other last-used printer), even though it won't generate a pdf that way. And the next time I open the file, the Print dialog goes to the default printer.

So far, I haven't been able to trigger a save prompt in Xara from just printing.