Re: GTK+ print preview



El mar, 19-05-2009 a las 07:46 +0200, Sven Neumann escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 15:06 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> 
> > I've realized that print preview doesn't work as I thought, and I'm bit
> > confused. An application open the print dialog by using
> > GtkPrintOperation, then the user clicks on preview and a pdf file is
> > generated to be used by a previewer. Such a file is passed to evince
> > together with the print settings needed to print the file. The print
> > dialog is closed, so we need to be able to print the document from the
> > previewer.
> 
> I don't understand why the previewer should be used to print the
> document. You may be right that this is what the authors of the GTK+
> print dialog intended, but it is certainly an odd concept. I find it
> very confusing that the Print dialog closes when I hit the Preview
> button. Wouldn't it be better if it stayed open so that I can make
> adjustments if the preview turns out wrong and hit the Print button when
> I am satisfied with the preview?

Yes, I agree, this was already discussed in this list before[1], though.
Leaving the print dialog open, would also allow to change again the
print settings if you are not happy with the preview results or just
want to try other settings. Current flow is quite annoying in such
cases, since you have to close the previewer and start the whole process
again.


[1]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-June/msg00044.html

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