[scribus] Landscape printing

[ale rimoldi]

hi

> I think we do users a disservice by having the suggestion to print
> from Adobe Reader as the only option we provide when someone is
> having trouble. If this is the case, perhaps printing should be
> completely removed from Scribus.
> 
> I do a fair amount of printing directly from Scribus, since I am 
> frequently not interested in the highest quality printout, and don't 
> want to bother with the added steps of exporting to PDF, then opening 
> with Adobe Reader just to print a page.

afaict, this is not about better or worse quality.

printing directly or through the pdf should give you the same quality.
(if you ever manage to correctly print)

in my eyes, it's more about struggling for hours to get your printer to
work with scribus (even for landscape pages) or just use the pdf reader.

and since most jobs created from scribus are not printed on your own
local printer (pdf distributed over the net, print shop, ...) i think
it's not such a bad idea to have a workflow that goes through a pdf
file.


> The lesson of this is that you should be able in most cases to figure 
> out the settings for a particular OS, Scribus version, and printer.
> If you don't care to go to this bother, then the PDF-Adobe Reader
> option is the more certain backup.

exactly. and for the beginner it's better to tell her to just use a pdf
reader and not lose hours trying to setup the printer.

definitively not the best solution one can think of... but a better
user experience than spending hours to -- eventually -- manage to setup
your printer before you see for the first time the result of your work!




ciao
a.l.e