[open-beos-printing] Re: Updates?

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Julun <HOST.HAIKU@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jorge,
>
> Jorge Mare schrieb:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Simon Gauvin <gauvins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps
>>> it should more appropriately be a BeOS Translator plugin... even if it
>>> uses
>>> printing API's underneath, the user never needs to know this.
>>
>> You read my mind. +1 to a PDF data translator.
>>
>
> sad, but this is supposable never going to work.

From the user POV, print to PDF is not intuitive, and a PDF data
translator that allows Save as PDF and/or even drag-and-drop to PDF
(as with the other translators) would provide a much more
intuitive/natural workflow to the user. PDF is just another format
anyway.

I have no clue how a PDF data translator could be implemented. I also
realize that this may be beyond the scope of this team. I think Simon
was trying to point out the POV of the users Haiku is trying to cater
to, as this sometimes can get lost in technical discussions, and I
just agreed with him. :)

Jorge

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