[Printing-architecture] Suggestion for a small change in your design for the Common Printing Dialog

[Ira McDonald]

Hi Alex and Till,

FWIW - In IPP/1.1 Production Printing, Open Printing Job Ticket API, and
PWG Semantic Model, we have a common "pages" attribute defined as
'(1setOf rangeOfInteger(1:MAX))' (i.e., a set of page ranges).

I suggest we give the user a set of boxes like ordinary page range that can
be filled in for a discontiguous set of pages.

Cheers,
- Ira

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Alex Wauck <alex.wauck at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like it.  I'm using a custom widget for the preview instead of the Qt
> preview widget, so it won't be too difficult to implement.  We just need to
> figure out how to specify ranges.  People don't want to go through and mark
> every page in a 100-page range.
>
> Alex
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> on the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) in Prague we have discussed your
>> design for the Common Printing Dialog. During the discussion doubts came
>> up about how to print only selected pages of a document. A suggestion
>> was then that one can add buttons to the preview to (de)select the page
>> currently visible (like implemented in multi-function printers where one
>> can print photos from a memory card selecting them on the printer's
>> display, or like on digital cameras with PictBridge).
>>
>> WDYT about this feature? Or what were your ideas about selecting the
>> pages to be printed?
>>
>>    Till
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