Printing to OneNote Windows 10 app cuts off margins of all documents with no controls to fix!

Anonymous
2019-06-10T16:39:38+00:00

My users have been suffering with this every day since we were forced to use OneNote Windows 10 after MS ripped it out of the Office 365 installer.  We are rolling out Teams and heavily rely on OneNote to "print" documents into the Team Notebooks.  I have called o365 support, they told me I now have to pay Windows support since our problem is in OneNote Win 10 and not OneNote 2016 so they no longer support OneNote.  I have submitted feedback via the OneNote Win 10 app, I've submitted in UserVoice, I've commented on other's questions here and also in other's user voice submissions.  I've seen no response from anyone on the OneNote team as to why such a fundamentally simple problem ever made it into the wild and why no one will fix this simple problem.

What is probably most frustrating is that if we print to OneNote 2016 this worked perfectly every time.  If we print the same document to OneNote Win 10 app, it fails EVERY time.

Anyone out there ever print to OneNote Win 10 and see their document cut off on top/bottom left/right margins?  Anyone here on the OneNote team, ever use ONeNote and try to print a document to OneNote win 10?

Buehler?.... Buehler?...

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T17:25:21+00:00

    I bet

    1. the developer who wrote the 2016 driver has left the company because they killed OneNote 2016
    2. the script kiddie who wrote the new driver would never take a look at old fashioned and even working Win32-Code

    SCNR

    Bernd

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-11T23:12:06+00:00

    I too have the Same ANNOYING problem. Where is the fix Microsoft???

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-11-06T23:27:41+00:00

    EAaron1,

      I am very glad to see others are following this as closely as I am!  It is easy to feel like you are the only one battling an issue like this and (sadly) I am glad to hear I'm not alone because it might help get their attention and fix quicker if more people are affected.  I appreciate any suggestions anyone out there may have.

    I'm confused as to your response however because this doesn't have to do with any physical printer at all.  It is a virtual print driver/spooler etc that Microsoft created in order to be able to print from any windows program to OneNote Win 10.  No different really than the virtual printer they install to "Print to PDF".  So only Microsoft can control this driver and if they are aware of DPI issues, then they CAN fix them.  I suspect the threads you are referencing don't actually apply to what is happening here with OneNote Win 10 and maybe it is a similar problem when printing to certain older, physical printers?  If I am not understanding you correctly, please let me know.

    Chris 

    Hi Chris - I have had a similar problem after the update. My work around has been to print the document using microsoft print to PDF and then insert the pdf into onenote as "insert as printout". I totally agree that this is a classic Microsoft showing a middle finger to it's loyal customer base. I hope this is helpful.

    Sumesh

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-17T05:50:18+00:00

    I too am experiencing this issue.  I have figured a work-around for PDFs and that is choose the "Shrink oversized pages" option from the Print Dialog window in Acrobat Reader.  From Word, using  "Narrow Margins" helps a little.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-10-10T19:00:49+00:00

    Rena,

      I appreciate that someone at MS is actually still monitoring this thread even though nothing at all has been done to fix this critical bug.  Where do you suggest we click the smiley face?  In the application that is printing?  How will that make it to the OneNote Team?  Also, where are we to turn on "View\Turn on Gridlines"???  In the application that is printing to OneNote?  I tried turning on gridlines in Word using a document that OneNote chops off and my document is perfectly inside the gridlines, yet OneNote still destroys the document.    So not sure what this suggestion is supposed to help.

    Please advise.

    thanks,

    Chris

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