search

notepad-plus-plus / notepad-plus-plus

Notepad++ official repository
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Other
22.94k stars 4.6k forks source link

Feature Request: Print Preview #4236

Open johnsie opened 6 years ago

johnsie commented 6 years ago

Description of the Issue

Sometimes it's necessary to print the contents of a file, but we have to decide whether it will look ok before potentially wasting paper.

Steps to Reproduce the Issue

  1. File->Print

Expected Behavior

Either there be a print preview option in the file menu or in the print options. This would being up an interface displaying what the printout will look like and how many pages the printout will use.

Actual Behavior

There is no option to see what your print out will look like in advance

Debug Information

n/a

johnsie commented 6 years ago

Known workaround is to print to pdf, but a print preview option would be more user friendly.

Mannshoch commented 6 years ago

Print Preview with a slider for Text size (auto-break on), text on Left/Middle/Right and Top/Middle/Down, and possibility to enhance it with Markdown support or similar over Add-on.

akoppa commented 5 years ago

No response in more than a year?

Mannshoch commented 5 years ago

Seems my last post shocked to much 😁

jimp4nse commented 4 years ago

Sadly it seems that this issue will not get priority anytime soon. It has been requested multiple times over the last years. In all discussions, the argument always was that editing documents for later printing would not be the "purpose of np++" (e.g., see https://superuser.com/questions/94290/notepad-display-printing-page-count). This is somewhat hard to understand. There seem to be endless scenarios where printing is desired (monospace font guitar tabs, code examples for academic exercise sheets, simple notes, etc.). Competing editors such as PSPad, having the same "purpose" I guess, support this since forever...

sasumner commented 4 years ago

@jimp4nse I think probably the print-to-pdf workaround satisfies most needs these days. Hard to put effort into something that already has a decent workaround when there are so many other bugs to fix and improvements to make. My 2c.

urheil commented 4 years ago

come on dev! we wont it! pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... hahahaha

is it there an add on or something to do this?

softfoot commented 3 years ago

I'd love this option too. Sometimes I need to see the preview to choose landscape or portrait or to trim the text to fit without wrapping. Dave

johnsie commented 3 years ago

There are 1.2k issues with this app. Looks like the dev team have a bit of a backlog. Doubt the will have the capacity to implement this any time soon. It has been over two years now. There are a few nice text editors out there already which do support this feature and better csv handling, so it might be a good idea to shop around.

visuttaja commented 3 years ago

Yes. it should be there to avoid distraction on workflow. Some algo snippets needs to be printed . Hands down best print preview implementation is in an old Firefox browser. It could be hacked from there into Notepad++. It could be seen as new improvement. I don't know about new Firefox breed but it might be still there. It is textbook example how it should be done. Because of certain plugins I've been forced to use the old Firefox. I'm using IntelliJ for writing Java and it also lacks printing preview. My first option would be to paste into Notepad++ and get the snippet on paper. But I need to see it fits beautifully. That is how I want to live my life.
Workaround: You can use Firefox: get path by copying it from some explorer view(copy as path) and paste the path to Firefox "Open File" dialog. Then cut the filename and press enter this giving you directory view. Then Firefox gives you very good print preview.