[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 219531] No KPrinter Print Preview Option

[John Layt]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219531





--- Comment #7 from John Layt <john layt net>  2009-12-28 10:20:50 ---
A more polite and useful response would have been to ask why it was removed
from the Print Dialog.  Note Print Preview is still available, the app just
needs to add the File menu entry.  For a start, we switched print engines to Qt
for various reasons (mostly because it worked and KDEPrint didn't) and Qt has
separate Print and Print Preview options and doesn't make Print Preview
available through the Print Dialog.  

There are actually good usability reasons for this.  Firstly, it isn't
immediately obvious to less advanced users that you should choose Print to get
to Print Preview (like in Windows choosing Start to Shutdown).  Also, the Print
Preview cannot apply all the options available in the Print Dialog (e.g. stuff
done by the CUPS print server and the printer itself) which is confusing to
users when the Preview shows something different to what they have selected.

Yes it would be convenient to also have a Preview button in the dialog, but
other issues in Qt printing need to be solved first (e.g. odd/even pages, page
ranges, save settings, etc), then other problems need to be sorted out lower in
the printing stack (CUPS getting a preview interface, etc), and there are
long-term plans to embed a preview in the print dialog that responds to changes
the user makes (the OpenPrinting project).

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