FreeLists / open-beos-printing / [open-beos-printing] Re: Margin View and Settings

["Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>]

> I've completed field filtering (only numbers allowed now) and bounds 
checking
>  in the MarginView class 

Great!

> and fixed a bug that flipped the margin bottom and right
>  values when you set the page to Landscape.

I've fix this small bug already, it's in CVS ;-)
 
> I have also completed the saving of settings of the SetupMessage to
>  ~/config/settings/pdf=3D5Fwriter=3D5Fsettings for the PageSetupWindow 
and MarginView. I save :
> 
>       paper=3D5Frect
>       printable=3D5Frect
>       pdf=3D5Fcompatibility
>       orientation
>       pdf=3D5Fcompression
>       units

Great!

But... I guess we should follow the *undocumented* print queues 
settings policy: store them as attribute in the folder assign to this 
spooler. With a global settings, all print queues will share same 
settings, which forbidden user to create a "High Fidelity PDF 
rendering" queue and a "Quick & Small PDF rendering" queue.

To see what I meen, create a new "test" print spooler/queue, and run 
this command from Terminal:
listattr /boot/home/config/settings/printers/test

You should get something like this:
$ listattr /boot/home/config/settings/printers/test
file /boot/home/config/settings/printers/test
  Type         Size                 Name
----------  ---------   -------------------------------
      Text          8                       Driver Name
      Text          5                      Printer Name
      Text          5                             state
      Text          5                         transport
      Text          6                 transport=5Faddress
      Text          6                        connection
      Text         16                          Comments
  MIME str         29                         BEOS:TYPE

We could store our PDFWriter specific settings into a single 
PDFWriter:settings attribute, as a BMessage (which should be easer from 
the current BMessage runtime storage.
We could also store them separatly in many PDFWriter:paper=5Frect, etc, 
but... well, why bother!=3F ;-)

> Before I commit this though, I have a question about the other 
settings you
>  wanted to save, in the JobSetupWindow class=3D3F I forget what your 
last message
>  said. 

I would like to add the embebded/not embebded fonts list later.

> I also want to add a new class, PDFWriterSettings, that does all the 
work of
>  loading and saving the settings. Right now all this code is in the
>  PageSetupWindow class and if JobSetupWindow needs it then it should 
be in a seperate
>  class. 

Yep, this would be a good idea, it'll will help isolate the storing 
policy from others modules...

Philippe

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