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	With printing in mind, distinguishing between "page" and "paper" is		With printing in mind, distinguishing between "page" and "paper" is
	indeed important. Take for example a real world task of creating		indeed important. Take for example a real world task of creating
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	http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1041		http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1041

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			It is logical that the paper size should be shown, because a user will
			want to know, what the finished product will look like. There then
			should be a printing margin, a layout margin (framing the main place for
			putting element) as well as an adjustable bleed.
			A view setting will allow the user to hide everything but the pages and
			also blank the parts on the page, that are not printable.
			A menu like the layer menu will allow easy navigation between pages.

BryceHarrington at 19:51, 1 April 2007

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	(suggestion: one of the most interesting feature of a vectorial editor, when focused to printing (postscript printing), is defining on each vectorial shape, halftone patterns oriented by an angle grid, like dots, squares, lines, etc. ) - with the inkjet printer popularization, this so amazing feature simply disappeared (aka being very limited to the driver printer halftone choices), which its simulation (at least) is very, very welcome!) (note: you could do nice halftone printing on Aldus(!) Freehand 3 with postscript printers at late '80s or early 90's !!!!)		(suggestion: one of the most interesting feature of a vectorial editor, when focused to printing (postscript printing), is defining on each vectorial shape, halftone patterns oriented by an angle grid, like dots, squares, lines, etc. ) - with the inkjet printer popularization, this so amazing feature simply disappeared (aka being very limited to the driver printer halftone choices), which its simulation (at least) is very, very welcome!) (note: you could do nice halftone printing on Aldus(!) Freehand 3 with postscript printers at late '80s or early 90's !!!!)

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			With printing in mind, distinguishing between "page" and "paper" is
			indeed important. Take for example a real world task of creating
			a portfolio with no margins (graphics reaching to the edge). Due
			to imprecision in printing, you need bleed (at least 3 mm in each
			direction for offset printing, rather more if it's a copy-shop job).
			And cropping marks. If you also need a PDF for screen display, you
			either need a tool that can crop on export, or you need to create
			2 versions.

			In the PDF and printing world, things are a bit more complicated than
			just "page" / "paper", though:
			http://www.tgreer.com/printforum/showthread.php?p=265
			http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1041

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These are the notes I've taken away from examining the printing subsystem. -Kees 2004-04-17

Printing in Inkscape depends on three components:

# Configuration -- destination, page size, orientation, etc is selected, the "Print" dialog
# Output -- DOM is coverted into a some kind of output, like [[PostScript]]
# Delivery -- "Output" is delivered to the selected destination

[[GnomePrint]] will let us do our own "Output" stage. They also have their own. Inkscape's native PS output, however, uses raw PS writing, rather than generic "moveto" kinds of actions, which is how [[GnomePrint]] is set up to be called.

My remaining questions:
* Will [[GnomePrint]] apply "Configuration" selections (page size, orientation) to application-generated Output correctly? It does not, however, these parameters are available during the "Output" stage, since they are collected during the "Configuration" stage. See "example_11.c" that comes with libgnomeprintui2.2.

(question: some printer drivers uses to print, instead to hardware printers, to .pdf files - is there existing drivers to print to raster pictures like .bmp, .png, and so on?)

(suggestion: one of the most interesting feature of a vectorial editor, when focused to printing (postscript printing), is defining on each vectorial shape, halftone patterns oriented by an angle grid, like dots, squares, lines, etc. ) - with the inkjet printer popularization, this so amazing feature simply disappeared (aka being very limited to the driver printer halftone choices), which its simulation (at least) is very, very welcome!) (note: you could do nice halftone printing on Aldus(!) Freehand 3 with postscript printers at late '80s or early 90's !!!!)

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