393827 - Please implement print preview in message composer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251953

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Sven Giermann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: TB 2.0.0.6 (20070728) + TB 3.0a1pre (2007082204)

Although this one seems to be already reported for SeaMonkey HTML Editor, I am explicitly filing this for Thunderbird message compose.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new message
2. Try to preview how it would be printed after sending

Actual Results:  
No preview button / menu.

Expected Results:  
Print preview, as you can print through menu.

I found an easy but annoying workaround: one could save the message and then preview printing from the Drafts folder - but I am sure these steps could be easier if you could preview from the composer window.
If you can print, what's the matter with preview?

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Since you can't know what program the recipient uses, the print preview wouldn't really tell much would it?

Also, can you give the bug number for the sm editor?

Comment 2

[Sven Giermann]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Since you can't know what program the recipient uses, the print preview
> wouldn't really tell much would it?

...unless you KNOW that he is using TB too!
Furthermore there's no reason to suppress the preview, when you are able to print.

> Also, can you give the bug number for the sm editor?

I found bug 374794, but now I found an older one describing exact this problem...