From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4ACE4633.9010803@bredband.net> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:06:11 +0200 From: Per Hermansson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4A8BCB46.9070401@gmail.com> <200910081041.47887.hvengel@astound.net> In-Reply-To: <200910081041.47887.hvengel@astound.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Common Printing Dialog: Print to (PDF) file List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Hal V. Engel" Cc: printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org Hal V. Engel wrote: >> we should implement such a "Print to File" queue also in the >> Common Printing dialog, so that we get it quickly into the distros >> without having a regression due to this feature missing. >> >> For the implementation note that the current dialogs do not send the job >> into a CUPS queue for "Print to File" (we do not use facilities like the >> cups-pdf package). "Print to File" opens a "Save as ..." dialog when >> clicking on "Print" in the printing dialog Then the user chooses where >> to put his file. >> > > In GTK yes but the Qt4 print dialogs do not open a separate "Save as.." dialog > since the regular print dialog has an "Output file:" widget that is activated > when when of the print to file queues is selected and there is no need for a > separate "Save as.." dialog. The "Print" button will cause the file to be > created/saved. This seems a little cleaner to me than having a separate "Save > as.." dialog. > > This makes a good motivation for migrating to the real "Print to file" dialog when designed. The CPD isn't designed for exporting to files so the current approach offers a good trade off. If we make the current implementation too good no one will want to switch when the new dialog is released :-) /Per