After 4.3 is out...

[Robert Helling]

Pedro,

> On 18.12.2014, at 01:32, Pedro Neves <nevesdiver at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As we're talking wishlist, I think it would be nice to improve the printing of the logbooks.
> 
> Some people mentioned more information (that would be nice), but I'd like to have some more flexibility on the printing layouts.
> I don't know how easy it would be to implement a way of supporting different printing templates...
> 



here is a rebased version of a patch that I sent long ago and which for good reasons did not make it into master but which for me fulfills exactly this purpose: It allows you to print log book pages via TeX (using the file logbookstyle.tex as a template essentially). You access it using the context menu of the dive list.

The problem with printing is that in order to be useful, the template system has to be powerful enough (as in descriptive, maybe NP completeness as for TeX is not really needed) and it should be able to produce decent output (meaning that should be able to handle variable sizes and line breaking and all that). Which to me seems to be a pretty accurate description of TeX.

The obvious problem is that while TeX is installed by default on many unix systems (or can easily be installed as for Mac) it is slightly painful for Windows and in any case it is a huge bulky thing that we do not want to force on our users just to have printing. But if you already have it or you don’t mind installing it then this patch might be what you are looking for.

BTW, if there is no pdftex binary in the PATH, this does nothing, so it is at least somewhat safe for people without TeX.

Best
Robert


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