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From: D.M. Procida on 21 Mar 2010 19:12
Why do some applications - Pages is the most obvious culprit - treat a
document as modified after it has been printed?

It's a bloody nuisance; I presume it's in order to save the Printed:
metadata, but even so it wouldn't be worth it for the confusion it
creates about the state of one's work.

Is there any way of turning this off?

Daniele
From: Chris Ridd on 22 Mar 2010 02:30
On 2010-03-21 23:12:37 +0000, D.M. Procida said:

> Why do some applications - Pages is the most obvious culprit - treat a
> document as modified after it has been printed?
>
> It's a bloody nuisance; I presume it's in order to save the Printed:
> metadata, but even so it wouldn't be worth it for the confusion it
> creates about the state of one's work.
>
> Is there any way of turning this off?

Does "Undo" undo whatever change was made to the doc? I don't suppose
it'll ask you to put the printed pages into the recycling bin or what
have you to complete the job...

--
Chris

From: Richard Tobin on 22 Mar 2010 11:58
In article <80oh49F37nU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

>Does "Undo" undo whatever change was made to the doc?

No. Load a document, print it, it's marked as changed, but undo is
still greyed out. Load a document, type some text, print it, and undo
undoes the typing but leaves it marked as changed.

-- Richard
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From: Gareth John on 22 Mar 2010 12:55
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

> Why do some applications - Pages is the most obvious culprit - treat a
> document as modified after it has been printed?
>
> It's a bloody nuisance; I presume it's in order to save the Printed:
> metadata, but even so it wouldn't be worth it for the confusion it
> creates about the state of one's work.
>
> Is there any way of turning this off?
>
> Daniele

Lock the document (in the Finder's 'Get info' window)?

But it's clunky, and won't work if you've revised, saved and printed in
that order.

FWIW, Word and all the Office apps do this same thing as Pages.

G.
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From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Mar 2010 14:14
Gareth John <g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com> wrote:

> > Is there any way of turning this off?

> Lock the document (in the Finder's 'Get info' window)?
>
> But it's clunky, and won't work if you've revised, saved and printed in
> that order.

Easiest, if you are confident that you can remember what you've just
done since you last saved, so you don't need to save again, is simply to
close the document after printing, but without saving. Cmd-W, Cmd-D.

Extremely easy. Perfectly neat.
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Peter
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