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gtk applications especially openoffice, mozilla firefox, mozilla thunderbird, ...
need an advanced & unified printing dialog which is comparable to the ones offered by microsoft's windows' printing drivers
they at least should include support for several pages per sheet (4 pages on 1 paper; 2 pages on 1 paper, duplex, etc etc)
apps like evince already support it but it's definitely missing on openoffice & firefox (where it obviously is needed the most)
a good example for offered printing options is kpdf
sorry if that functionality is already planned for the next upcoming versions of the mentioned apps
thanks ! =)
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vexorian wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 17:08
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This is a definite needed improvement, although it is hard to pull out.
To me, it is impossible to print in GIMP, I need to save it and use gnome "viewer?" to open the image and print it.
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jojoman02 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:35
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This is currently being worked on, no need to put it, if you follow development, hardy heron is the first release that shows the first fruits of all the labor, the next ubuntu version should be even more unified as far as priniting is concerned, i believe firefox/gimp and some other gtk programs have the new print dialog integrated.
http://planet.gnome.org and http://planet.ubuntu.com sometimes talk about these issues, it is very good source to follow development and lives of the people that create the software.
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Chrissss wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:29
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Firefox3 will use a native gtk print dialog. I guess the next thunderbird will do the same...
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deadowl wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 23:44
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I'm always confused about where GTK fits in with XUL.
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nathan_s wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 02:13
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Another good example is the print dialog in Mac OS X. It's very powerful, letting you (for instance) do multiple pages per sheet from any application. Also, anything that can be printed can be outputted to a PDF/PostScript.
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NachoBlanco wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 09:12
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I would like more options for printing in PDF. For example, I have been not able to print to PDF in horizontal pages.
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kernelOfTruth wrote on the 8 Apr 08 at 14:43
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I hate critizing but:
the new dialogue e.g. introduced by firefox 3.0 (currently I'm using beta 5) is simply NOT ENOUGH ! ;(
the pages which can be printed per sheet are:
1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 16
is that all ?
in my eyes that's too much simplification !
I've discussed already with several other users & they, e.g. needed 8 pages, 10 pages, and so on
ideally there should be dialogue with "custom" so that I can choose how much pages I need on a sheet (e.g. for preview purposes)
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drinkypoo wrote on the 9 May 08 at 14:44
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I cannot agree more with this, I would vote it up 100 times if I could. Currently I print pretty much everything more complicated than a receipt to a PDF, then load it in Adobe Reader (slowwww) and use its printing options to get the job done. I really need n-up printing (different numbers make sense for different page sizes, so of course it must be computed automatically, sorry) and manual duplex printing (stupid HP eliminated duplex units to sell more printers) :(
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avb wrote on the 4 Jul 08 at 17:56
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+1
Multiple pages printing would be a blessing. (Though OpenOffice Impress can do this partially: it's called "brochure", but can only print 2 pages per sheet.)
Also it would be GREAT to automate 2-sided printing. Now you have to select "print only odd pages", and when done (and the stock of paper is put back in the printer), you have to select "print only even pages" and "print in reverse order".
It would be nice to have an option "print two-sided sheets", and when odd sides are done, a message could appear like "now put the pile back to the paper tray, upside down" (could be more precise than that...). Using the appropiate settings in the background, without user intervention.
Just my two cents.
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