Re: [gedit-list] First pass hack of gedit and gtksourceview port to gtkprintoperation

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/1/06, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:
> >   I can
> > easily see "current selection" as a useful value for the range
> > selector. And
> > it should be easy to add.
> >
> Yes, but I would prefer to not see it added as a special case (like the
> "current page" case).
>
> Doing it like that sounds like pushing policy that should be up to the
> app into the toolkit, especially since this stuff is possible with
> libgnomeprint... As I said above, I think that a generic mechanism to
> choose a custom range of the document to paginate and print is a pretty
> basic need: a spreadsheet that wants to just prints some sheets, a CAD
> app that wants to just print some views of a project etc, etc

I am not sure that doing it the libgnomeprint way (embedding a custom widget)
is going to work on win32; alex can probably answer that.

Matthias