On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Christoph Bartoschek <bartosc...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch 16 März 2011 schrieb John Layt: > >> [1] > >> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/openpr > >> inting- summit-san-francisco-2011 > >> [2] > >> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/commonp > >> rintingdialog > > Hi, > > I'm very happy to read that there is work to improve the current printing > situation. KDE 3 had a wonderful printing system. It was far from perfect > but usable. Unfortunately KDE 4 replaced it with a print dialog that is > barely usable. > > I've looked at the Requirements page and started the dialog application. I > have some comments and questions: > > - My biggest wish for a printing dialog is that the preview exactly matches > the output. All current print dialogs that I know on linux have the problem > that the output is not really predictible if one goes away from the default: > printing A4 portrait to an A4 portrait printer. > > Often one has to try several options to get the desired result or one > finally fails. Options that often cause problems are landscape/portrait the > size of the media, or multiple pages printing. > > - The choice of the output paper size and tray should be more prominent. I > have one printer where I can find the paper size only in the General tab at > the last position of 50 options. > > - There should be visual feedback how the document applies to the paper. > What happens if I print an A4 document and select an A5 paper? How can I > specify that the document has to be shrunk to fit? > > - Is it possible let the dialog shrink the document by a given percentage > and to align the document on the paper to have more empty space on the left > for a hole-puncher > > - Is it possible to print an A5 document on A4 paper centered with optional > with crop marks at the border? > > - Will the applications be able to change the document and send a new > preview as soon as the options change? > > - For duplex printing I would like to see a left and right page or top and > down page side by side in the preview. > > - If one prints more than one document page on a paper sheet it should be > possible to specify the horizontal and vertical gaps. > > - The preview should optionally show the media borders, the printable area > borders and the document borders on the media. > > - One advanced option I would like to see: I do not know of any duplex > printer that is able to print the front and back page such that for example > crop marks exactly match. Often there is an offset one has to apply. It > would be nice if one could do this independently for the front and back page > in the dialog. > > Christoph Bartoschek
In general it would be nice to see screenshots of the available options and how they are laid out. -Todd
