Quick page format selection for printing

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J-J
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Quick page format selection for printing

Post by J-J » Tue Dec 06, 2016 6:37 pm

Hi guys,
How about a drop down icon in the print menu to make a quick selection between most common formats: A4,A3,A2,A1 & A0 ? This would alleviate going all the steps of the "Edit" menu...
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Re: Quick page format selection for printing

Post by Husky » Tue Dec 06, 2016 7:43 pm

Hi J-J,

nice idea! :D

I use the "Drawing Preferences" Button in the Print Option Bar and I think it is pretty fast to make changes to the Page settings ...
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just three clicks and I have a new format.

I would rather think about to reduce the selection of offered Page sizes like the "Use reduced selection of fonts" option below Application Preferences / Draw / Text
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That would also eliminate the question of: What is the most common format?
What do you think?
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Re: Quick page format selection for printing

Post by J-J » Tue Dec 06, 2016 7:49 pm

Hi Husky,
I use them all, A0 trough A4.
Large formats are nice with a pdf export, because you can zoom on details. That was just a suggestion from my typical usage.
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Re: Quick page format selection for printing

Post by JoseVieira » Thu May 07, 2020 2:14 am

I think that it is a good idea. I use to press Ctrl+i to go fast to drawing preferences, but, at least, would be a great thing if the window "drawing preferences" remembers the last tab opened, to avoid one more click to open the desired tab.

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Re: Quick page format selection for printing

Post by giemme1969 » Thu May 07, 2020 1:56 pm

It would also be very useful to be able to save - with their name - any customized formats

IMHO

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