RE: Gtk+ printing dialog highlevel thoughts

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:06 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 16:29 +0530, Viraj Chatterjee wrote:
> > Isn't "Print Preview" supposed to mirror what will appear on paper?
> > Should this be done at all?
> 
> It is a sort of strange thing to do, as it sort of breaks what a
> "preview" is used for (verifying how the printed page will look before
> wasting paper). bill, does any other system do this?

Yes... gnome-print :)  Or at least, it used to:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96802
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158012

so if it doesn't any more, I guess we've just entered Regressionsville.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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