Re: print preview

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:27:09 -0500
> From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: print preview
>
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:51:05 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan
> <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> >
> > Short answer
> > No.  Print Preview is not available
> >
> > Longer Answer, Possible workaround would be to print to a file and then
> > use some sort of a postcript veiwer such as Alladin Ghostscript.
>
> The muscle of a real operating system makes a hack like "print preview"
> look pretty puny.
> An even better answer would be to define a fifo for the purpose.

I wonder about the current state of Gnome-Print, I heard they were working
to remove the Gnome dependencies...
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-print/
At the bottom of the website it reads:
"At GNOME 2.0 time, the dependency on linking with Gtk+ will be gone, as
the base GtkObject object is moved into Glib (GObject)."

> If .dia/diarc defined a fifo and an external postscript displayer (say,

At least on Gnome/KDE, it would be definately be better to use whatever
the system specifies as the default postcript viewer (or at least try to).

> write to the fifo, and launch the displayer.  Not very different from
> defining helper applications in your favorite web browser.  Or the way
> Bluefish uses a browswer, or the way....

Later
Alan