Importing a document should not prompt for page range to import

[Nicolas Marchildon]

Binary package hint: gscan2pdf

Ubuntu 9.10, gscan2pdf 0.9.29-1

Assume the user wants to import all pages of a document when a file is selected for import. This will be acceptable behavior for probably 90% of the use cases, as the pages can later be deleted with more control (select odd/even + delete). I think this would enhance the user experience.

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe (jeffreyratcliffe)]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:55:09AM -0000, Nicolas Marchildon wrote:
> Assume the user wants to import all pages of a document when a file is
> selected for import. This will be acceptable behavior for probably 90%
> of the use cases, as the pages can later be deleted with more control
> (select odd/even + delete). I think this would enhance the user
> experience.

I added the ability to import selected pages from TIFF because a user
was having problems running out of space in tmp when gscan2pdf
extracted all pages.

As it is only one extra click, I see this as a very minor
inconvenience - the alternative being an option in preferences whether
to display the page selection dialogue or not.

[Nicolas Marchildon (nicolas-marchildon)]

Yes, this is a small inconvenience. It would be a smaller inconvenience if the dialog appeared right after selecting the files. When I open a 10 or 20-page PDF, I have to wait something like 20 seconds before seeing the dialog, after which it takes an other 20 seconds to complete the import. If the dialog appeared faster, I could do something else while the document loads.

An other alternative would be to add an "Import page range" menu option below "Import document".

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe (jeffreyratcliffe)]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:51:50PM -0000, Nicolas Marchildon wrote:
> Yes, this is a small inconvenience. It would be a smaller inconvenience
> if the dialog appeared right after selecting the files. When I open a 10

Unfortunately, this is how long tiffinfo needs to extract the number
of pages in the file.

> or 20-page PDF, I have to wait something like 20 seconds before seeing
> the dialog, after which it takes an other 20 seconds to complete the
> import. If the dialog appeared faster, I could do something else while
> the document loads.

It is possible that in the future I might write perl bindings for
libtiff, which might speed things up a bit.

> An other alternative would be to add an "Import page range" menu option
> below "Import document".

I think I like the option in preferences better.