[texworks] new Mac binary posted - testing welcome

Otared Kavian otared at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 07:56:59 CEST 2009


On 15 juil. 09, at 18:29, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Hi Otared,
>
> Thanks for your kind words. :)
>
> Regarding the Print command.... no, you're not being dumb! There is  
> no support for printing at the moment, you have to open the PDF with  
> some other tool such as Adobe Reader, Preview, etc, and print from  
> there.
>
> Obviously, this is not ideal, but doing high-quality PDF printing in  
> a cross-platform manner is tricky, and I didn't want to put the  
> feature in until it's ready. On the Mac, it would be easy to  
> support, but on other platforms there are a lot more issues, and I  
> think it would be doing users a disservice to provide a Print  
> command that may give inferior output.
>
> I hope we'll have built-in printing support fairly soon -- Stefan  
> Löffler has done some work on it -- but it's not ready for general  
> use yet.
>
> Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for your explanation which are totally convicing (and sorry  
for replying so late: I was away from an Internet connection for a  
while).

Best regards: OK


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