GSoC Status - Week 5 (Customizable prints)

[Gehad Elrobey]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 1 July 2015 at 17:18, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 04:51:13PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> >>
> >> basically, i was going to ask about the whole b&w vs color printing.
> >> given that in the new print stack the user will have complete control
> >> of colors, layout and so on via templates, do we still need the "print
> >> in color" toggle, which will supposedly override the template colors
> >> and convert everything to greyscale.
> >
> > My instinctive reaction would be that this seems odd and redundant. If
> you
> > want greyscale, build a greyscale template. But I may be missing
> > something.
> >
> >> i would say, yes.
> >> also, we might have an easy solution to do that via CSS (suggested in
> >> a previous email), but Gehad needs to confirm it.
> >
> > Can you explain why you think the answer is yes?
> >
>
> it would act like an override, so if one likes a template, he/she can
> still toggle off the "print in color" and produce b&w output of said
> template.
> if it's way too difficult to implement, i guess we can consider it as
> redundant and remove the option completely.
>
> waiting on Gehad to comment further on the CSS solution.
>

I need to mention that the current implementation works correctly for
actual printing what we miss now is the b&w preview in the
QPrintPreviewDialog, the CSS that transforms to b&w can be added in the
preview printing only as it is not needed in the actual printing case.

-- 
regards,

Gehad
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