Re: Evince preview mode

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 6/7/06, Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc gnome org> wrote:

> hmm, when the user selects preview from the print dialog, the dialog
> disappears and evince is launched, so that if evince has a print button
> we should print the document directly without showing the print dialog
> again. I see several problems in this approach. First of all we can't
> know the print settings selected by the user from evince. And, should we
> close evince or keep it opened after clicking on print? Is it possible
> to print  a pdf file with the new gtk+ api without showing any dialog?

Sure, figuring out the best way to transfer the print settings to evince
is part of this. And yes, printing preformatted pdf is supported.

> I think it's very confused. The best solution would be not to hide the
> dialog when the previewer is launched, so that once the user is happy
> with the results showed in evince, he simply clicks on print button.

Apple does it too, so it can't be all bad...

Matthias