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@antistress
I do see why you think this is a problem. However, your assumption that printing involves a paper sheet is incorrect. This may have been correct 100 years ago but as technology has changed so has the way in which the word is used. One perfect example of this is 3D printing. Anyway english use of print aside let use look at the reason this functionality exists in the print dialog in the first place.
Which is to save the document in a generic form (in order to print it again at another time - or in another place).
Why would you want to do this?
Suppose you create a document using LibreOffice in open document format. Here are some options you have if you print the document to a file:
1. You can later on print the file without needing to open LibreOffice.
2. If you send it to someone with only Word (which is not fully compatable with odf) they can still Print the document without needing LibreOffice.
The fact that PDF's are commonly used also for viewing the documents content is a nice side affect but the main reason for this funtionality is to support printing.
This is why you can't just strip this functionality out of the print dialog like some have suggested, as it is meant to be there to compliment the printing functionality.
If you still don't agree you should report this upstream https:/