KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Bart Coppens wrote:

> On Friday 14 September 2007 23:46, David Faure wrote:
>> It will simply not have the
>> "print preview from the print dialog" which was a rather confusing feature
>> anyway, most people don't expect it there.
> Actually, what I'd have loved to see, is that you could print preview from the 
> printer dialog, and uncheck the pages that you don't want to see printed.
> 
> Think for example about Konqueror printing 3 pages that are almost completely 
> empty, with only the first page containing actually useful data.

Exactly that is one use case where I use the print preview regularly.

Another one is Kate.

Its print dialog extensions to "prettify" the printout rocks!

But I often need to adjust a few things first (text is not page orien-
ted, but when printed it sucks when a heading is the last line on a
page), like adding a few empty lines here and there, increasing/decrea-
sing margins, set header/footer, which I need to preview (or waste lots
of paper + time(!)).

> Having to 
> print preview, abort, remember the right page numbers, etc, is pretty 
> annoying there. I don't think this use-case for a print preview dialog at 
> this point is far-fetched.

I agree.

It seems only far-fetched to a developer who thinks of his own applica-
tion only, and who has implemented a well working preview there already
:-)


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