On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, James K. Lowden wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:27:09 -0500 > From: James K. Lowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: print preview > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:51:05 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
