[Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

[Michael Sweet]

Mike Shaver wrote:
> On 20-Dec-05, at 1:26 PM, Martin Konold wrote:
> 
>> E.g. KDE offers a file open dialog with preview capabilities. This 
>> capability
>> is build into the dialog without a call back to the application 
>> calling the
>> dialog.
> 
> But when the user changes the paper size, or changes from portrait to 
> landscape, or even from colour to B&W, don't apps need to adjust to that?
> 
> We would certainly want to reflow to match the new dimensions, as I 
> would imagine that Inkscape or Konqueror do.  And if OpenOffice has 
> widow-and-orphan protection, etc. -- I really don't see how you can 
> avoid informing the app.  Is there some trick that I'm missing, in my 
> printing-naïvete?

This particular discussion is for the file dialog, not the print
dialog.

WRT to the print dialog, yes, there are some applications that will
need to reformat their output, others that just won't care, and still
others that will want to warn the users that they won't see all of the
output.

That said, it is unlikely that the generic print dialog proposed here
will be used by more complex printing applications that provide custom
options and dynamic previews (i.e. drag the object you are printing
in the preview to adjust the position on the page + options like "crop
marks" and other application-specific stuff that doesn't belong in the
generic print dialog)

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