On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 00:24 -0700, Brian Fraser wrote: > 1. Is this a reasonable feature idea?
I think so. Note that under Linux the default print transport format is now pdf, so e.g. file->print and toggle "print to file" under options and setting the various options should result in the kind of output you want > 2. Would this be reasonably straight-forward to implement (i.e., are > printing and PDF export as compatible as I might hope)? I *think* so. It might end up being a bit involved, but in theory at least we have all the pieces to do that. > 3. Where is the code for the print dialog's tabs, and the export to > PDF dialog's tabs? The PDF export dialog is filter/uiconfig/ui/pdfoptionsdialog.ui (all these .uis are editable with glade) and each page in that dialog are the .uis of filter/uiconfig/ui/pdf*page*.ui The Print dialog is vcl/uiconfig/ui/printdialog.ui and there is a "custom" tab which is where each applications print options get put, e.g. the impress one is in "sd/uiconfig/simpress/ui/printeroptions.ui" and there is some baroque code in PrintDialog::setupOptionalUI in vcl/source/window/printdlg.cxx where each app sets a property on the dialog to state which options .ui to put in there followed by the names of each widget in there and its type so that the dialog can return back which options got set. For e.g.. impress the other side of the process to tell the dialog the .ui to load and the description of the properties is in sd/source/ui/view/DocumentRenderer.cxx (search for ExtraPrintUIOptions and maProperties) > 4. Where is the code for setting the output layout (ex: 4 pages per > sheet)? When you load the .ui in glade you can see the names of the widgets, searching for those names will then help find the code, so in this case "paperspersheetlb" links up eventually to PrintDialog::updateNup where the n-up stuff gets set onto a printercontroller that figures out how to control the printing Hopefully this is enough info for you to put a few breakpoints around on those places and get a feel for what different code-paths the printing and pdf export take and see if its possible to marry the pieces together to do what you want. C. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
