RobertBColton
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4 years ago I am going to close this out as pretty much resolved for a couple of reasons. We already have printing with a dialog in each of the editors now where you could even want to do that. Linux, Windows, Mac, all have Print to PDF in addition to printing to One Note on Windows. Usually out of the box too, Windows 10 & Ubuntu do now. I can easily select this from LGM and perform it now, so that's good enough for previewing before actually printing anything from LGM. It's not really worth our time and effort to invest in maintaining a print preview dialog that will rarely ever be used or needed.
LGM is a game editor, not a word processing program! Regardless, if somebody else comes up with an actual reason for it, we can reconsider later on.
Continued from https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/commit/c4f77e902fcbe68c1106815e883d9c32cd6af680 and https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/commit/e81a8f898cea1a49083c09b5286955f93f01735f
Just like every other software with printing capabilities, LGM should have print preview features. Currently the printing for Game Information and Resource Information do print correctly, but I personally would like to be able to preview the printables before sending them to my printer. This requires we write our own print preview dialog.
It is important to note that neither GM8.1 or Studio have print preview capabilities either, and Studio's print dialogs are practically broke for both frames. It is important to realize that on Windows you can with any program send/print the document to OneNote using the printer interface to preview it before actually printing. However, LateralGM is cross-platform and OneNote may not be available on every system.