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Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> After much frustration with trying to print a schematic in Linux I
> decided to roll up my sleeves and try to figure out what was going on.
> It took me a while but I think I have come up with a solution that gives
> some small measure of printing sanity on Linux without breaking printing
> on Windows (the changes would need to validated on OSX). On GTK I
> had to expose the page setup dialog to allow setting the feed
> orientation (not page orientation) to 90 degrees to get the correct
> orientation on both postscript and printer outputs. I am proposing that
> we drop the current Eeschema print dialog and use a more conventional
> printing approach by using typical print, print preview, and page setup
> dialogs. Below is a synopsis of my proposal.
>
> Problems with existing dialog:
> 1) Non standard printing design.
> 2) Fails to expose wxPageSetupDialog which fixes some (not all) GTK
> printing issues.
> 3) Pen width setting is meaningless at best and confusing at worst due
> to internal scaling used to fit the schematic to the pinter page size.
> 4) Only allows current page or all pages to be printed.
> 5) Doesn't respect printer configuration dialog color selection.
>
> Proposed changes:
> 1) Remove current print dialog.
> 2) Add print preview and page setup entries to file menu.
> 3) Display platform print dialog when selecting print menu and print
> tool bar button.
> 4) Add project setting to hide or show the sheet reference and title
> block to the configuration settings dialog.
> 5) Display and print sheet reference and title block according to the
> configuration setting.
> 6) Custom print preview that saves and restores it's position and size
> between sessions.
>
> Advantages:
> 1) You can actually get something that resembles a sane output on GTK.
> 2) Printing will be similar to most applications that users are familiar
> with.
> 3) Removes an intermediate dialog and uses platform print dialog directly.
> 4) Uses print dialog page selection to allow full or partial page printing.
> 5) One less dialog to maintain.
> 6) Uses platform printer dialog to select grey scale or color printing.
> 7) Print preview saves and restores position and size between sessions.
> 8) User can create custom sheet reference and title block.
>
> Disadvantages:
> 1) Requires two step setup to print properly on GTK which will be confusing.
> 2) Lose monochrome printing (black and white) if not available as option
> in printer configuration dialog.
> 3) No direct way to disable printing of the reference frame and title block.
>
> If there is a consensus that this is preferable to the current printing
> solution, I will commit the changes.
>
> Wayne
Ok for me.
Printing under wxGTK is a problem.
Hope this change solve these problems.
A solution to keep monochrome printing option will be welcome.

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