Re: Print preview widget

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Ghee Teo wrote:
> Cody Russell wrote:
> > I was thinking that it would be nice if there was an integrated print
> > preview widget in GTK+, that would be available cross-platform and
> > wanted to check with people here before I commit much time to this.
> > Right now we're spawning another process to do this, and I think an
> > integrated widget would be much nicer.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >   
>    Will be most interested in your idea to achieve cross-platform (which 
> I presume are
> windows, MacOS, Linux/Unix), though the latter are pretty much based on 
> a layer
> above X.
>   Definitely a+1 here.

Hooking this up on MacOS X would be easy -- all apps I've used there 
that have a print preview just generate a pdf (or ps?) and open it with 
Preview.app.

Basically the same as just launching evince on Linux, but of course 
you're more or less guaranteed to have Preview.app available on MacOS; 
not so much with evince on Linux.  I'd love to see an integrated print 
preview on Linux, though, that doesn't have external dependencies.

	-brian