Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-26 Thread Gary Martin
On 26 Jun 2011, at 10:29, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Christoph Derndorfer's message of Sat Jun 04 22:20:08 +0200 > 2011: > >> (1) Are you suggesting that rather than being able to print directly from an >> activity users will have to export whatever they want to print to PDF, then >> la

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-26 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
On a slightly different note: what mechanism will be provided in Sugar to set the page size, if there is none already?What is going to be the default page size (A4, Letter, etc.)? And what printing margins are going to be used as the default, and presumed to be supported by all printers? When

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-26 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Christoph Derndorfer's message of Sat Jun 04 22:20:08 +0200 2011: > (1) Are you suggesting that rather than being able to print directly from an > activity users will have to export whatever they want to print to PDF, then > launch a separate activity or go into the Journal to start

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-04 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: Hi Sascha, thanks a lot for your work on this front! Requests for print functionality in Sugar have been voiced repeatedly, > including during EduJam 2011. Adding support to Browse for exporting the > currently loaded document as PDF is a majo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-04 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 12:12:41PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > Not only printing. > > Still in places were there are connectivity, many times is so bad, than > having > > the possibility of enable anything similar to offline navigation is >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 12:12:41PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Not only printing. > Still in places were there are connectivity, many times is so bad, than having > the possibility of enable anything similar to offline navigation is great. > And many kids do not have connectivity in their houses

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-03 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Not only printing. Still in places were there are connectivity, many times is so bad, than having the possibility of enable anything similar to offline navigation is great. And many kids do not have connectivity in their houses too. Gonzalo On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wro

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-06-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
We get asked about printing all the time. While I understand why this is a deliberate omission in Sugar, it can be nonetheless annoying for teachers. This approach seems to be a good compromise. Sridhar On 30 May 2011 00:04, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Requests for print functionality in Sugar have

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse 0/2] Add support for Export as PDF

2011-05-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
Requests for print functionality in Sugar have been voiced repeatedly, including during EduJam 2011. Adding support to Browse for exporting the currently loaded document as PDF is a major step in that direction since Browse can render (and thus export as PDF) a variety of file formats, including HT