Re: GTK+ print preview
Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: 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. Yes. If you want to do this, then evince can not be used as a previewer, since it is a different process. Why can't gtk+ provide the preview itself, I thought I read some discussion of having a Preview widget here. I also think that having a Print Preview dialog available while no printer is selected meant it is hard for create correct printer settings accordingly. -Ghee [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-June/msg00044.html ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
Re: GTK+ print preview
Am Wed, 20 May 2009 15:17:41 +0100 schrieb Ghee Teo ghee@sun.com: Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: 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. Yes. If you want to do this, then evince can not be used as a previewer, since it is a different process. Why can't gtk+ provide the preview itself, I thought I read some discussion of having a Preview widget here. I also think that having a Print Preview dialog available while no printer is selected meant it is hard for create correct printer settings accordingly. I think originally the assumption was that preview in evince might be better in terms of displaying the document and usability of the preview. However apart from the work flow, the preview is also unavailable if you don't actually use evince. So I would totally agree to change that. Preview from Gtk itself would solve two problems for me. Just my 2 pfennig, Christian ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
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 -- Carlos Garcia Campos elkalm...@yahoo.es carlo...@gnome.org http://carlosgc.linups.org PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x523E6462 signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
Re: GTK+ print preview
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? Sven ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
