'Print to file' can defaults be pre-set??

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ken301

'Print to file' can defaults be pre-set??

Postby ken301 » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:51 am

Hi,

First of all I'm really amazed how good inkscape is!!

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 & regularly have to print to a postscript file. When I go 'File > Print...' in Inkscape & choose 'print to file' it defaults to 'pdf' format (postscript is another option that must be selected) & saving these files direct to the home directory.

Is there a way to get this to default to postscript instead of pdf & to save them to another folder??

Thanks in advance for your response,

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Re: 'Print to file' can defaults be pre-set??

Postby loonquawl » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:29 am

on linux, there used to be a config file that had many (some undocumented) features to fiddle with :
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... Files.html
on windows its in the documents&settings folder; there is an option that sounds good:
org.inkscape.print.ps.destination
no idea what it does, but please report, if you find out :-)

EDIT:
as there is a key in extensions.h, that concerns the default for printing

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Definition at line 45 of file extension.h.

#define SP_MODULE_KEY_PRINT_DEFAULT   SP_MODULE_KEY_PRINT_PS

Defines the default printing to use.

there might be a destination key too, somewhere.

Another solution might be to "install" a pdf Printer that can be configured external of Inkscape


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