[Portland] printing?

[Bastian, Waldo]

>On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:22:07AM -0700, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>> I have outlined the ideas that I have around this topic on
>> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2061
>>
>> Tom Whiple over here at Intel will be helping me getting this of the
>> ground over the summer. It would be great if you could provide input
to
>> the Wiki in terms of any constraints/requirements that Inkspace would
>> have in this regard.
>
>Okay, I've added some thoughts...

Great, thanks.

>For Inkscape we mainly need the standard print dialog stuff - setting
>margins, print preview, selecting the printer, landscape vs. portrait,
>etc.
>
>The one thing that may be kind of unique to us is that SVG can either
be
>printed directly as postscript, or can be rendered to a bitmap first.
>Usually the former is better, but there are some SVG features not well
>supported by postscript, so the latter is sometimes desireable to have
>as an option.
>
>One question I have is for this dialog, are there ways that the dialog
>can pass info back to the application?  I.e., it could be nice if the
>user switched to landscape mode in the print dialog, to change the
>canvas as well.

On the fly? Or when the dialog closes? I think the dialog should provide
the applications with information about all the selected options.

Cheers,
Waldo