On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 05:23:32PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > On 1 July 2015 at 17:18, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 04:51:13PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > >> > >> basically, i was going to ask about the whole b&w vs color printing. > >> given that in the new print stack the user will have complete control > >> of colors, layout and so on via templates, do we still need the "print > >> in color" toggle, which will supposedly override the template colors > >> and convert everything to greyscale. > > > > My instinctive reaction would be that this seems odd and redundant. If you > > want greyscale, build a greyscale template. But I may be missing > > something. > > > >> i would say, yes. > >> also, we might have an easy solution to do that via CSS (suggested in > >> a previous email), but Gehad needs to confirm it. > > > > Can you explain why you think the answer is yes? > > > > it would act like an override, so if one likes a template, he/she can > still toggle off the "print in color" and produce b&w output of said > template. > if it's way too difficult to implement, i guess we can consider it as > redundant and remove the option completely.
So IIRC the problem we had was that you had to pick smart "colors" (i.e., good gray values) for b/w prints to look reasonable. So if I build a nice color template - how would this pick colors that work well? I'm not saying I'm against having it - I'm asking if this is worth focusing time on vs. just creating a couple of strong b/w templates (and fixing the profile2 problem which I think you have either way, correct?). I'll be happy to be convinced that I'm wrong and that this adds a valuable feature... I'm just poking at this to understand if this is the right space to focus our energy on. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
