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Subject: Re: KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting
From: Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date: 2007-09-14 23:19:47
Message-ID: 46EB1713.8060206 () gmx ! net
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Bart Coppens wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 23:46, David Faure wrote:
>> It will simply not have the
>> "print preview from the print dialog" which was a rather confusing feature
>> anyway, most people don't expect it there.
> Actually, what I'd have loved to see, is that you could print preview from the
> printer dialog, and uncheck the pages that you don't want to see printed.
>
> Think for example about Konqueror printing 3 pages that are almost completely
> empty, with only the first page containing actually useful data.
Exactly that is one use case where I use the print preview regularly.
Another one is Kate.
Its print dialog extensions to "prettify" the printout rocks!
But I often need to adjust a few things first (text is not page orien-
ted, but when printed it sucks when a heading is the last line on a
page), like adding a few empty lines here and there, increasing/decrea-
sing margins, set header/footer, which I need to preview (or waste lots
of paper + time(!)).
> Having to
> print preview, abort, remember the right page numbers, etc, is pretty
> annoying there. I don't think this use-case for a print preview dialog at
> this point is far-fetched.
I agree.
It seems only far-fetched to a developer who thinks of his own applica-
tion only, and who has implemented a well working preview there already
:-)
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Kurt Pfeifle
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