[platform-ui-dev] Print Preview / Page Setup dialogs

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a requirement to provide a print
preview dialog.  This dialog would show you a representation of a
piece of paper with a thumbnail of the printed contents on it.  The
thumbnail portion is application specific, but I was wondering if options
such as print margin, page orientation, etc., could be provided by JFace
or SWT?

How is it possible to do things like
change the print orientation (landscape/portrait), duplex printing, etc.
 One way is just to have a button labeled "properties",
which invokes the native Printer properties dialog.  But I think this
dialog is missing from SWT.

Many applications have two separate
actions from the File menu: Print, and Page Setup. Setup would allow you
to change orientation and print margins, and maybe other options such as
printing source code using 2 columns ala enscript on Unix.  I'm thinking
that the Page Setup dialog would be non-native, and that maybe the workbench
could provide a framework for this.

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