[softwarelist] Re: .pdf creation for OvationPro

  • From: Ray Dawson <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:02:17 +0000

Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <4f3ebf7613john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > NB The current save to file from printers is unsatisfactory for
> > forgetful people like myself who are always liable to overprint a ps
> > file with something intended to go elsewhere! ;-(
> 
> True. The "To file" mechanism of !Printers is not very nice in that is 
> requires the destination to be configured first. I suppose that could 
> be changed in the !Printers front-end. Basically, what I would find 
> useful would be another radio button that says "To file (deferred)", 
> which would be like "To file" but without a writable field, so you 
> would not specify a destination. Then, when printing has completed, 
> !Printers would pop up a save box. That should be relatively trivial 
> to add to !Printers.

Surely what would be ideal is !Printers printing the file to the same
place as the saved file from the application. That way they are kept
together. It could also adopt the same file name, but with a suitable
suffix so that it doesn't overwrite the original?

Cheers,

Ray D

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