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

[Michael Goffioul]

> 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.

This is to be implemented at application-level, I guess. Indeed, only
the application is reponsible for the print content, this cannot be
handled at KDEPrint level directly (I'm talking about a "print
selection only" feature). Now, within KDEPrint there's still a
possibility to print only some pages. There's still some 
inconsistencies about what's being shown and what's being printed
(I hope to fix that in future releases), but what you still can do
is do it in 2 stages:
1) preview only, and check which pages you need
2) print only the pages you need.

Michael.

> 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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