Cedric Sagne wrote: >>> Can anyone print a Scribus file directly to their attached printer from >>> Scribus using Scribus' printing mechanism >>> > > Actually (maybe oil on the fire there), I clearly remember doing this in > 1.3.3.7 Windows, (but then this issue may indeed be Linux specific), > specifically on a file which was not big. > Apart from that it looks to me that given the amount of data processed when > a PDF is created (and a ps file to a printer is just that), it is not > suprising that things go wrong when trying to print directly. > IMHO (and I am not a big techie) it sounds like common sense to split the > data sending to the printer in two in order to lower complexity > 1 create ps file to pdf, > 2 print the pdf > One of the inane things I do with Scribus is print envelopes -- I use a template I concocted, my Scripter Postnet generator, and it's faster than any other way (on Linux). Turning them into ps or pdfs, though, doesn't make sense. I think there are plenty of things that people may want a quick and dirty printed copy from Scribus without generating the PDF.
Greg
