Re: [Usability] Print and page setup dialogs are very unusable

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> If I want to print on anything but standard paper, I have first to open 
> page setup, select a printer there, select page size
> close this dialog, and only then select print.
>
> It would be much better to have one more option in print dialog to 
> select page size there, and maybe customize margins there too.
>
> Btw there is a bug I reported on gnome bugzila 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551356
>
> It seems that this isn't eog specific bug, it seems like page margins 
> rotate with page orientation, although they describe
> actual printer limitations.


This might be better on the gtk-devel list, so I've cross-posted it there.

There do seem to be real problems printing to specific paper sizes. I 
don't think there is a satisfactory way of telling gthumb (my pet 
project) to print to a 4x6" photo paper (for example) with zero margins, 
which some printers are capable of doing. I'm not sure if it is a 
problem with the cups drivers, or gtk-print, or something else, but it 
just doesn't work...

Maybe I'm missing something.


- Mike