Printing Files / Selections

[Michael Bulgrien]

@Scooter

It would be nice to have a Print menu item under the file drop-down menu to send a file (one side only) to the printer.

It would be nice to have a Print menu item under the context menu for a selected block of text to send the selected text to the printer.

This would also allow me to send extracted text from pdf files office files to the printer instead of saving them as text files first and opening the text files in another editor.

I work in BC so much that it takes the place of, in some respects, a file manager. If I need to send something to the printer, it would be more efficient to be able to do it from BC3 instead of bringing up the content in another editor.

[Aaron]

Thanks for the suggestion, Michael. I thought this was already on our Customer Wishlist, but was unable to find a previous entry, so I created new one with your notes.

[Michael Bulgrien]

Please add to the customer wishlist entry that the Print function should have an option to truncate long lines instead of wrapping the text.

[Aaron]

Truncate as in delete text from the report? Could you go into more detail on how this type of feature would be used? As a print of one side, this would not include comparison information (or would it?). It would then include only part of the file you were printing?

[Michael Bulgrien]

Truncate as in not wrap long lines in the printed document.

A print option under the File menu would not include comparison information. It would simply print the file in the active pane.

Regarding truncating lines... The normal view in BC is to see long lines truncated. A user may want to view the file the same way in hard copy. For example, we have application settings config files that include a handful of lines that are hundreds or thousands of characters long...but the vast majority of the lines are short enough to fit on the page. I brought up one such file in a text editor (with line wrap turned off) and printed the file to discuss some of the content (in the short lines) with a colleague.

The editor's print dialog estimated that the file would print on a single page because of the small line count. I sent the file to the printer and it spilled over onto three or four pages because the print function wrapped the long lines even though I had line wrap turned off in the editor. In this case, since my purpose for printing the file had nothing to do with the content in the long lines, I would have rather have truncated those lines on the printout. What does fit on the page in a single line would provide visual context to the rest of the file without adding pages of unwanted material to the printed report which not only wastes ink and paper, but also makes the content of interest more difficult to find and work with.

[Aaron]

Thanks for the clarification. Notes added.