[bt-devel] Printing

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi Chris!

> As I said before the next major thing should be printing. It looks like I
> have to do it (no other volunteers ;-(
>
> I'm getting an external modem that I'll be able to use under Linux this
> weekend, hopefully, so might be able to contribute soon.

Cool! Very good :-)

> Main things:
> ---------
> -We should use an own printing dialog which supports our special features
>
> Isn't it possible to use the standard QT/KDE one and change it
> programmatically?  I think I'd rather see consistancy accross all 'windows'
> and dialogs.

Qt's dialog looks very bad (IMHO). KDE is doing some work on an own dialog, 
but it's not usable yet. But we should have an open printing system so we can 
introduce an other dialog if it's necessary.

> -We should print as PostScript using Qt's printing classes
> We should support normal actions like "Printo to file", "Select printer",
> "Select paper size", "Orientation of paper" , "Number of copies", "Range of
> pages to print", "border etc." etc. We could/should use the code of the Qt
> lib to implement the basic things already in the Qt's own printing dialog.
>
> -Formatting styles
> Chris had this very good idea! Formatting rules are good, loading and
> saving
>
>
> Thanks
>
> them to disk too.
> 	o Use of colours
> 	o Use of different fonts, their size and text styles (bold, italic,
>
> 	underlined etc.) for the text of the heading, body and footers.
> 	o Ability to select how Strong numbers are handled (style, size,
> colour of
> 	strongnumbers)
> 	o Ability to select how footnotes are handled (style, size, colour
> of
> 	footnotes)
> 	o Chris suggested images. Chris how / where should images be used in
> 	printing?
>
> I think I was looking at the inclusion of clipart, maps etc.  Would be
> particularly useful when sermon notes is developed and for Sunday School
> etc preparation.

Maps are not yet supported by SWORD. Do you want to use own cliparts etc?
How should they be inserted?

> 	o Ability to select if you want to have the text verse-by-verse or
>  	"floating" text
> 	o Ability to select different styles of headings and footers (like
> in 0.2)
>
> -Preview mode
> 	In the preview mode some PS viewer should be opened (like in 0.2x)
> Excellent Idea!
>
> -your suggestions
> I believe the sermon preparation should be designed and implemented, at
> least at a basic level, prior to shipping version 1.0.

What do you mean with this? Functions to support printing of sermons or the 
sermon backend?

--Joachim