[scribus] Landscape printing

[Gustavo Homem]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "JLuc" <jluc at no-log.org>
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.info
> Cc: "JudeGardner" <public-jgardner-qoA2/DGdXiMAvxtiuMwx3w at lo.gmane.org>, "Oleksandr Moskalenko"
> <public-malex-kGx2OB1uoM/R7s880joybQ at lo.gmane.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2011 11:03:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Landscape printing
> 
> >> From: JudeGardner<jgardner at tconl.com>
> >> Scribus insists on printing it in portrait mode.  What do I need
> >> to do?
> 
> Scribus printing feature is not prefectly reliable.
> 
> The thing to do is
> - export to PDF with required options,
> - open the PDF in Acrobat Reader (preferably to other PDF readers)
> - print it from there.
> 

If this is the case - that has been mentioned since 2006 IIRC but I haven't checked lately - the print button should just export a temporary PDF file and open automatically a (user defined) PDF reader.

There is no point in maintaning a feature that is supposed to be non reliable. 

This situation is a bit like certain others that appear from time to time in the mailing list:

Q- "if I do actions X,Y,Z Scribus crashes, what do you think?"
A- "oh... no sane user would ever do X,Y,Z in a sequence"

IMHO it is better to have less features but have them all working, than exposing lots of possibilities part of which don't work. And given how full featured Scribus is currently making it more usable to end users should be a priority.

Just MHO.

Cheers
Gustavo



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