Gnome Print Preview Suggestion

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

There has been some talk of using Evince as a universal print-previewer 
in Gnome (can't remember where). with this in the back of my mind, I 
noticed an interesting feature in Microsoft Office for Mac.

In Microsoft Office for Mac, the normal print dialog has a thumbnail 
view of the actual print preview. Here's a screenshot: 
http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/gnome/word-osx-print.png

For many cases this thumbnail view is enough to confirm that you've got 
the right page or document selected for printing - or that it will all 
fit on one page.

If this print-preview-thumbnail widget also had a button to view the 
full-size print preview, it would be ideal.

If the Print Preview were always accessible from inside the Print 
dialog, perhaps this could also eliminate the need for a "Print Preview" 
menu item along side the Print in the File menu.

There was a mention on the wiki about a hackfest on a "Print dialog 
replacement" [1] so I thought I would throw this idea out there.

Thanks,
Steven Garrity

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005_2fTheSchedule