Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Seperation of the exporting from the printing functionality d

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:22:21 +0200
Guy Harris wrote:


On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 06:17:02PM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:

Any comments on the changes?


Should we have two top-level menu items:

	Export Packet Summary as -> {Plain text, PostScript,
	    XML (PSML)}

	Export Packet Details as -> {Plain text, PostScript,
	    XML (PDML)}?
I don't like that approach. Usually when exporting, I want to have a specific file format, and then select the things that should be exported.
Or having a general selection and then select the file format (but that's not a good way, as "our" different file formats have different levels of detail selection).
In none of these cases, I would like to have the two menu items you described (beside the fact, that the names are much too long for toplevel menu items). 


And is exporting as PostScript something that can solely be done with
"print to file"?

I'm currently unsure about that.
I tend to remove the "print to file" option from the printing dialog completely. 

Regards, ULFL