On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 15:24:52 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Seems to me we should not have to print a 90 page document to get the one > > page/paragraph of interest. > > I agree, but I wonder why you think it needs to be stated. > What tool are you using and what part of it makes you think it really > wants you to print all 90 pages of a document? > > FWIW, nowadays I basically never print to paper from anything else than > my favorite PDF viewer (which does offer me to print any selected > subset of the pages). For everything else, I "print to PDF" (and then > use my PDF viewer to print to paper the parts I need, if that's > what I want).
What I would miss if I had only that for PDFs: . a record of how I made the printout, . a carbon copy of the document to file (if I do print, it's generally to send it somewhere), . the ability to do this manually or with scripts, . handling encryption, . most importantly, the ability to assemble a document from multiple parts of various sources. Cheers, David.
