Patch or App. to allow Print Preview of Selected Area?

[Till Kamppeter]

Good suggestion.

Print previews are not implemented in spoolers or drivers, but in 
applications (web browser, office suites, ...) or desktop environments 
(KDE, GNOME). So I suggest to post this on the mailing lists of 
applications and desktop environments.

I have CCed this to the KDE print mailing list.

    Till


Brendon wrote:
> Firstly, I use Windows mostly, but I am highly interested in Linux and
> have been trying to learn it for a while now. My question is, does anyone
> now if there are any applications out there which allow getting a print
> preview of a selected (highlighted) area? Any print preview I've ever used
> only shows you the whole document, even if you've selected only a portion
> of it to be printed. It would be particularly useful when printing from
> web pages because what I often do is highlight only the area I need and
> choose to print only the "selection" in the print options to save ink and
> paper. What happens though is that you can't tell how many pages your
> document will use now because you're printing only a portion of the
> document and print preview will show you only what printing the WHOLE
> document will look like. It's a real bummer when I print and it ends up
> using just a line or two of another page. Of course, there are ways to get
> around this, such as removing the paper from the paper tray so it won't
> print, checking out the "active printers" to see how many pages it's
> supposed to come to, and then making adjustments until it's the way you
> want it, but that's such a hassle. It should be easier. If anybody has any
> information for me, please reply in the forum or feel free to even email
> me at l3rendon@galaxy.net.
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