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    Daniel Essin
    last edited by Jan 3, 2023, 9:53 PM

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    How clunky and dysfunctional.
    Is there some way to get the old one back?
    And why is no preview available?

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      PeterJones @Daniel Essin
      last edited by Jan 3, 2023, 9:59 PM

      @Daniel-Essin ,

      The Print dialog is a function of the Windows OS – Notepad++ just calls the OS-defined dialog: the same function call in Notepad++ that opened up the old dialog in Windows 10 opens up the new dialog in Windows 11; Notepad++ cannot change that.

      I am not on Win11 right now, but I believe if you grab the scrollbar between the left column and the empty preview window and scroll down, you might get a button which takes you to a dialog more similar to the old menu. (But I might be wrong.)

      As for why there is no preview: my guess is that there would have to be code added to Notepad++ to make it pass that “preview” along as extra information to the Windows 11 print dialog… and I don’t know if it’s possible for Notepad++ to do that without making itself incompatible with Windows 10 (which isn’t going to happen, because many Win 10 is still supported by Notepad++, and will most likely be still supported for years to come).

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        PeterJones @Daniel Essin
        last edited by Jan 3, 2023, 10:06 PM

        @Daniel-Essin ,

        A quick web search (using The Search Engine That Knows All) gives me this: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-legacy-print-dialog-windows-11/

        According to that article, all classic win32 apps were switched to that dialog in Win 11 22H2.

        That article does describe a way they think you can get back the old dialog. Note that it’s a Windows-OS issue, not something specific to Notepad++, so any further discussion would be better suited at a different forum (maybe one made up of OS Super Users, or one specifically for your OS).

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