Print and publisher quirks- macOS

[Chris Hough]

Ok, as an office, we are about to jump from Archicad 26 to 28, and we are also in the process of switching from Intel based MacBooks to Apple Silicon ones, so some big changes coming up for us. Having said that, there are some frustration points I want to address with the macOS and the way Graphisoft implements printing though the print menu and the publisher.

1st grievance (and I'm pretty sure this is just a general macOS thing) but I find it completely frustrating that you have 2 separate dialog boxes to print- one to choose the paper size (print settings) and then a separate one to do the actual printing, and in EACH ONE you have to select the printer. As an office (as I'm sure most do) we have multiple printers and we use at least of couple of them frequently, depending on the output and the type of meeting we are holding, we may switch back and forth between paper sizes and printers within a project several times as we print. It's not the worst thing, but GOOD LORD this could be so much more efficient to handle it all within a single dialog box. Again, I understand some things are just a macOS thing and out of Graphisoft's hands, but please look into it maybe?

Onto grievance #2 then (the big one), which is tied to the 1st one- why doesn't the publisher RETAIN the printing options/ settings of when you set up the sheets??? If I choose our full sized printer to run 30 x42 sheets (and my publisher set was created as this as the settings), but then later I print a single sheet off on a different printer at 11 x 17, suddenly all of my publisher settings are altered to the 11 x 17 printer. It's extremely frustrating, and IN NO WAY does this make any sense- those settings  for printing in the publisher should stay FIXED until I tell them to change- regardless of whatever the default printing settings are for the file at any given moment. Yet this is definitely not the case- unless I am doing something odd?

And onto the final grievance:

Why ON EARTH do I have to select each file in a publisher set individually to change both the Page Setup and the Print Settings, but I can batch change the Print Options (multiple files selected and altered at once?) Again, I know some of this will be thrown back at Apple, saying "well, this is the way the macOS has the print settings setup", but c'mon- surely there is a better way to do this. What the heck is the point of using the publisher for printing if you have to baby sit it to this level? And this one wouldn't be that big of a deal if grievance #2 wasn't an issue, but IT IS. This is ridiculously time consuming and extremely frustrating when the publisher print settings do not stay fixed and you are trying to print out set of 20 sheets or more.

This bug the heck out of anyone else? Surely this isn't the 1st time this has been brought up.

Thanks for listening.

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based 12.7