On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Hansel wrote:
Maybe it'd be an idea to put a tip in the print dialog, that recommends
the user to print via a viewer?
> <snip> distribution, you might get short-hopped by the differences. I
> always try to print from a viewer looking at the final distribution
> version.
A restriction to print exclusively through viewers breaks lyx! There are
circumstances where printing an exported ps file makes sense (e.g.,
multiple collated copies, transmit).
I don't think anyone proposes that we remove the ability to produce
.ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint directly
from LyX. The question as I see it is if it's worth spending time trying
to fix bugs in LyX that are related to printing. (And that are probably
specific to the GNU/Linux distribution etc)
Under most circumstances, a keyboard shortcut or a print icon (or using
a menu) produces COMMON SENSE result. An editor/text processor that is
the only one on the planet that won't conduct a friendly hand shake with
the print layer of sofware is not going to be very popular.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
