Re: The printing work has been merged

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Ya, and you can render the page much faster/sloppier if you know it's 
for preview and will only be displayed in a small area... maybe 
gtk_print_context_is_preview() makes sense?

-Alex

Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Print preview isn't handled yet. We'll see how it turns out. There is no
> > need for a draw_preview of course, since the normal draw_page works
> > fine.
> >  
> I was thinking about pagination: if you need to draw a preview
> of one first page, you don't have to split whole document into
> pages; and if you need to print whole document, you need to
> split it completely. So, there should be some different signal
> for preview, or some 'setup' signal which would tell about
> what's going on, or something like that.
>
> Pagination can be expensive; e.g. if you are printing a text document
> containing different fonts, it's pretty much impossible to guess
> something without going through whole document, and
> calculating every line. So there should be some progress dialog
> in Print dialog before user is even able to click Print?