Re: [Evolution] Print Preview Enhancement (?)

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 10:30 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 01:13 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > Is there a plan to make Print Preview setup work as described in the
> > following very old web page?
>
> You just made me read a complete page instead of pointing out to which
> specific aspects you refer and I still do not know what you mean.
As far as I can tell, no print settings at all are retained between
invocations of printing, in particular "Scale", which annoys me a lot,
since the default scale is much too large; I have to set the scale to
75% each time I print anything.  It would also be nice to have a
preview of what is to be printed as the name "Print Preview" implies. 
The old page I linked to gives an indication of what a proper "Print
Preview" page might look like.

Milan Crha writes that a bug in webkit, also old, going back to 2012,
makes fixing any of this difficult:
   https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79226
I have just experimented with changing "scale" in 
   /home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/printing.ini
from 100 to  75, but it seems to make no difference.  Maybe a
difference will show up when I reboot the system.

> > If not, is there a plan to make the settings remain constant between
> > invocations?
> > http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/dev/evo/ev/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/usage-print.html
>
> No idea which settings this is about. I'd say the default general
> answer to basically anything is "No, there are no plans."

It certainly looks like there are no plans (8-(

jon