[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Hansel wrote:
A restriction to print exclusively through viewers breaks lyx! There
are circumstances where printing an exported ps file makes sense
(e.g., multiple collated copies, transmit).
All of that can be done through viewers.
I don't think anyone proposes that we remove the ability to produce
.ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint
directly from LyX.
Out of curiosity, why?
I print my documents on a Postscript-capable laser printer, and I've
never bothered printing from LyX, because I always review the rendered
document in a viewer before printing it. If I need to print an
existing document without editing it, I generally have a copy of the
final rendered version already available, so why re-render it? And if
I don't, I'd just as soon run LyX in batch mode to produce one, than
go through the GUI.
> The question as I see it is if it's worth spending
time trying to fix bugs in LyX that are related to printing. (And that
are probably specific to the GNU/Linux distribution etc)
The worst one isn't: File > Print simply doesn't make sense, and
that's true on all platforms. The design is broken. LyX supports
multiple back ends, and as long as that's true, File > Print is at
best ambiguous. At worst, it's simply broken, for example if I have
pdflatex-specific packages or commands in my document (in the preamble
or in ERT).
At the very least, the menu item should be named something like "Print
(Postscript)" or "Print (dvips)". An unqualified "Print" menu action
isn't meaningful for LyX.
--
Michael Wojcik
