Re: Nautilus as help browser - first impressions.

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Dan Mueth (d-mueth@uchicago.edu) wrote at 15:45 on 24/08/00:
> >    3. I think we really need a "print" button - for those who want to
> >       print out a section of a manual and read it. Nothing fancy. 
> 
> This is another great feature we want.  This one probably won't happen for
> 1.4 though, as it requires that every user has a good copy of db2ps, along
> with our stylesheet.  I suppose we could just install it as part of
> Nautilus which would guarantee that it exists.  The other tricky thing is
> that we need EPS figures to make PS output.  Since docs don't currently
> ship EPS figures, we would need to either go through and convert them by
> hand and have them installed or else have them converted from PNG to EPS
> on-the-fly.  I think this is do-able though.  If we could get this to work
> with gnome-print so we would get a print preview, that would be *really*
> cool.
> 
> Dan

Well - I think a 'better' proposal for Nautilus 1.0 is to ask that you be able
to 'print from the mozilla component'. That way you can print help files, man
files, info files, or any other website you visit.

I think 'at this point in time' converting to postscript and printing is
beyond the scope of the Help System. But I think printing for the mozilla
component might be 'doable' 

Hehe - notice the sneaky way I am trying to shift a 'wishlist' item onto
somebody else ;)

Regards,
Ali