Inkscape

better print dialog interface

Bug #170727 reported by Jeremy-c-reed
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Fix Released
Medium
Kees Cook
inkscape (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Please consider having a friendlier printer dialog. My
wife and young
children do not know command line Unix. Using a pipe or
greater than is not intuitive for them :)

Please consider using a printer dialog widget that
allows to choose:

 - print to PostScript file (and a dialog to choose
filename.ps)

 - print to PDF (or other formats) using outside tools.
  (maybe print to PDF using Poppler library see request
1197549)

 - print to printer (and maybe use parsed printers
names found from
   printcap)

 - how many copies to print, etc.

Doesn't GTK2 or any other of inkscape's dependencies
already provide a nice printer dialog widget?

Some similar requests are:

1150805 - Print Preview & Page Setup

840345 - EXPORT DIALOG: NEED EPS, PDF, SWF, etc

Tags: printing ui
Revision history for this message
Horkana-users (horkana-users) wrote :

I think the plan would be to use gnome-print

Inkscape can be compiled to use Gnome print but it needs
more testing before it can be made the default. (Gnome
print has almost no gnome dependancies anymore and gnumeric
needs it to work on Windows anyway so inkscape should be
able to use it everywhere)

Revision history for this message
Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

I'd really like to second this, and support this bug being
fixed because printing, even in windows, is a mess. Its
rediculous that I've set my page to be "landscape" in
document preferences, but when printing it is always
defaulted to portrait. I can't afford to make the accident
of wasting paper printed in the wrong orientation anymore,
but this would be easily avoided if inkscape was using the
information.

Revision history for this message
Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Originator: NO

The Gnome print dialog has been hooked up in subversion now.

Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)
Changed in inkscape:
status: Invalid → Fix Released
Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)
Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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