Re: GTK+ print preview

[Ghee Teo <Ghee Teo 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.

-Ghee
> [1]
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-June/msg00044.html
>
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