Re: Re: printing preferences?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2001-08-14 14:13 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> [sorry, I'm answering from my web mailer account, which does not go
> into  the list...]
> 
> >> > I initially implemented almost the same thing in prefs but wasn't
> >> > quite happy with the result.  I wanted to avoid creating a new 
> page
> >> > in prefs and really didn't like to use the entire
> GnomePaperSelect
> >> > widget there (it seems to me to
> >> > be designed for use in print dialogs).  I decided that I wanted
> to
> >> I also think that this is better placed in the printing dialog 
> because
> >> it's more a per-job thing with defaults than a global preference
> >> setting, in my opinion.
> >> However, the print dialog needs to be rearranged, it's too tall for
> >> 800x600 and 640<480 screens.
> 
> I agree that Lynn's approach is nicer and the more logical one.
> However, 
> to save space we could use just a combo instead of the complete paper 
> selection dialog? With the attached patch (re-worked from Lynn's), I
> get a dialog size of 391x457. I also changed the paper variable to the
> (global) one so it gets saved and restored properly.
> 
> IMHO, it might be interesting to get more options for the printout
> (last night I almost finished code for font selection). The question
is
> where they could go (if anyone wants to have them in balsa, of
course). 

Well, this stuff can safely go to preferences, I think. (while paper
selection is 1.2 thing, I would consider font selection something for
1.3 series).

/Pawel

> For sure there is no space in the print dialog. So we could either use
a 
> button (like "Layout...") instead of the combo to pop up a new dialog.
> 
> Or, again, we put this into the preferences panel. Opinions?
> 
> The call to gnome_print_master_set_paper() is necessary to get the
> right 
> paper size in the postscript output. E.g. try to set a weired paper
> size 
> (like envelope) and look at the preview. The physical paper size is 
> still a4 (or whatever your system default is), just the printout is 
> packed into one corner. This might make problems with some ps laser 
> printers which have a physical encoding for the inserted paper type.
> No 
> idea why you might want to print a mail on an envelope, though, just
> to 
> be complete...
> 
> Cheers, Albrecht.
> 
>
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