38270 - Context menu item for printing selected text to printer

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24221

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

After you select some text on a webpage, there should be added en "Print" to the 
right-click context menu, giving the user the ability to print the selected 
text.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

heh.  this is a dup of bug 24221, which _you_ reported back in January :)

The only difference between that report and this is that in this one, you say 
right-clicking on selected text should give ability to print only that text.

However, if Print... is added to the context menu, I would assume the ability to 
print selected text would be within the print dialog itself (as it is in win32's 
native dialog), but it would be enabled/disabled depending on whether text is 
selected.

Thus, this is really the same thing as 24221

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24221 ***

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Verified dup.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

I just thought that instead of having Print in the context menu all the time, 
only add it when the user selected some text. Thereby we avoid filling the 
context menu up.

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

In IE there's a big difference between the context menu after you select some 
text and the right-click on that text, and when you just right-click on a page 
without selecting any text. I still think that also could be the case in 
Mozilla, instead of just putting the two very different bugs under the same bug.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

I don't know how useful such a feature would be, but I'm willing to open this 
bug up to discussion now that you've differentiated between this and 24221

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Resummarizing on that basis. But I still think this is a job for the Print 
dialog, not for the context menu. (`Print: (*) whole document ( ) current frame
( ) current selection' ...)

Now if you could drag selected text to the printer icon on your desktop and have 
it print, *that* would be truly classy.

Comment 7

[Brendan Donohoe]

I agree with Matthew that the actual function belongs in the print dialog.  I 

don't want to see two or three print commands (Print, Print Frame, Print 

Selection, etc.) showing up in the File and context menus, but that's what we 

would have to do if the print commands themselves were so specific.



For example, if I have text selected and I select print from a context menu, I 

still need to have access to printing the entire page and not just the selection.  

Therefore, I would either need two or three print commands or options in the 

Print dialog.



I can, however, see an argument for making the context menu preselect one of the 

options in the print dialog based on what was contextually clicked on.  Thus, 

Print from a context menu on selected text could select the Print Selection radio 

button in the Print dialog but the user would still have the option to override 

and print the whole thing.



Reassigning to Printing to assess feasibility.

Comment 8

[dcone (gone)]

I agree this should not be a menu item.  Print selection should be a printer 
dialog option.. when we support printing selections.  I will mark this as a dup 
and can be considered when we get to this feature.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24221 ***

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

vrfy