Comment 21 for bug 3667

Hello,

Multipage printing is very usefull I hope you will add it in Dapper since it has a Long Time Support !!!

I will add that other things that psnup (and other psutils commands lines http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/) provide should also be add in gnome-print :
- booklet printing (psbook ...)
- mirror printing (convert -flop input.ps output.ps)
- multipage printing (psnup -n 2 ... or more !)

The user interface should allow to act as a tube (pipe |)... a sort of filter...

It should be possible to have more than one action
for example
- I should be able to print with a mirror effect with 2 pages to 1
- I should be able to print with a mirror effect a booklet
- I should be able to call my own bash script
    tube script like ... | psbook | ...
   or script with parameters such as $i for input file and $o for output file (that's just an example)
...

therefore I think the user interface shouldn't have buttons to tick but should have 2 parts
on the left part the differents effects (multipage, mirror, ...) are shown
the right part will be the "printing tube" that will show what effects are chosen and in what order (and whis what parameters)

The user who only want a multipage print will drag and drop multipage from the right to the left.
On the right part a right click on the multipage will allow him to selct how many pages he wants (it is a parameter of the multipage effect)

The paramaters of a selected effect on the right part could appear by a right click or could be on the bottom of the window (maybe it's easier for users on the bottom...)

I hope you like the idea of this interface...
I really think that it will allow users to do everything they want !!!
I dont't think it 's a geek interface ;-)

Regards