Comments on: Printing with Linux and Firefox 3 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/ My *other* country is in Iraq Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Livio http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4681 Livio Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:43:00 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4681 @nacho: are you blind? Screenshot shows print dialog to say "goodbye". @nacho: are you blind? Screenshot shows print dialog to say “goodbye”.

]]> By: Dan http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4413 Dan Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:45:57 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4413 Printing stuff is a bit broken at the moment. It would be nice if the brower would give the user more power of the content he wants to print out. At the moment, most of the time, the ugly, no good-css websites, I do c&p to openoffice. I really would like to stop that. FF3 nightly with multiple selections (ctrl+click) & options: print only selections, only gives me blank pages. I want more power, this should be possible by manipulation the DOM view in print preview. See aardvar firefox plugin. Printing stuff is a bit broken at the moment. It would be nice if the brower would give the user more power of the content he wants to print out. At the moment, most of the time, the ugly, no good-css websites, I do c&p to openoffice. I really would like to stop that.

FF3 nightly with multiple selections (ctrl+click) & options: print only selections, only gives me blank pages. I want more power, this should be possible by manipulation the DOM view in print preview. See aardvar firefox plugin.

]]> By: everyone http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4411 everyone Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:43:30 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4411 Hurrah! Hurrah!

]]> By: nacho http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4409 nacho Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:20:17 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4409 That print dialog doesn't seem really gnomish (that ugly frame) That print dialog doesn’t seem really gnomish (that ugly frame)

]]> By: Livio http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4408 Livio Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:09:42 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4408 http://www.flickr.com/photos/livio-pl/2214776914/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/livio-pl/2214776914/

]]> By: Holger Berndt http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4406 Holger Berndt Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:56:55 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4406 Totally unrelated to Firefox' integration of the print dialog: Though GTK+'s "new" print capabilities (they're not so new anymore, but still hardly used.. I wonder why) are really nice and a huge step forward compared to libgnomeprint, they feel half-done. There's no easy way to print such a standard things as a GtkTextBuffer. The print preview is basically undocumented, necessary signals that are needed for a custom preview implementation are not mentioned in the API docs. As there's also no real example of a working preview, one has to dig in the code to find the signals. Bug 479303 bites me all the time. Implementing the preview as 'print to pdf' and then opening in Evince is quite a bad idea too. We had to write 1300 lines of code for printing of a GtkTextBuffer with a custom preview, other applications will have to do the same for this common task of printing a text buffer! Totally unrelated to Firefox’ integration of the print dialog:
Though GTK+’s “new” print capabilities (they’re not so new anymore, but still hardly used.. I wonder why) are really nice and a huge step forward compared to libgnomeprint, they feel half-done.
There’s no easy way to print such a standard things as a GtkTextBuffer.
The print preview is basically undocumented, necessary signals that are needed for a custom preview implementation are not mentioned in the API docs. As there’s also no real example of a working preview, one has to dig in the code to find the signals.
Bug 479303 bites me all the time.
Implementing the preview as ‘print to pdf’ and then opening in Evince is quite a bad idea too.
We had to write 1300 lines of code for printing of a GtkTextBuffer with a custom preview, other applications will have to do the same for this common task of printing a text buffer!

]]> By: Haisen http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4405 Haisen Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:55:31 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4405 And how the new thing looks? And how the new thing looks?

]]> By: Livio http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4404 Livio Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:13:41 +0000 http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/01/23/printing-with-linux-and-firefox-3/#comment-4404 You should use Minefield - it introduces many fixes and improvements over UI and some functionality. You should use Minefield - it introduces many fixes and improvements over UI and some functionality.

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