GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 206142
Printing an addressbook (wishlist)
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:33:24 UTC
Hey everyone, I'm using evo for all my email but I refuse to migrate to use the contact list until it gains a fair amount of functionality. Addresses are pretty sensitive and need a fair amount of flexibility to be useful. In this case, I suggest some improvement that needs to happen to the printing of the addesses. Ultimately this should act like a simple little database but in the meantime some of this could be implemented. Here is what I see as being really useful: 1) Better Selection: ------------------- This would take some work to get flexible enough for my needs and would require expanding the notion of Catagories from what exists now to allowing multiple Fields such as "Type:" (e.g. Family, friend) (it's a bad name but all that comes to mind at the momment) "Location" (e.g. East Coast, Bay Area, Europe). Just having the list alphabetical means that I would have all the list addresses interspersed with my "real" contacts. 2) Fields for inclusion: ------------------------ I might want to print out all the fiels or a very specific list, perhaps just phone numbers or just emails but maybe: **************************************************************** FirstName LastName phone thefirstline of the adddress theSecondline of the address All_the_other_junk_I'll_never_use but_want_to_have_on_hardcopy ******************************************************************* 3) Print Format: ---------------- The coolest computer generated addressbooks are printed like old books were made so you can fold, say, ten sheets at once in a way that they can be binded (stapled) on the bend and the redundant bends can be cut. This leaves you with a smaller format book. So the whole shebang would be an addressbook printed into a book that was the size, for instance, a quarter of an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet. It would have my family members printed first, follwed by friends ... and at the end would have one page of just telephone numbers and one of email addresses. Thanks for the code, cheers, adrian
*** bug 243656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding "printing" keyword to make printing issues searchable again, finally... sorry for the noise/spam. :-/
fixing a summary typo
Below is a wishlist bug that I was going to submit, except that after a search I discovered this bug and it seems most relevant to add it here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a request for an "old feature" - the old version of the contacts printout. The contacts printout used to be a *wonderful* feature of evolution (circa 1 a year go - early 05). It had a nice compact style ... Contacts printed out nice and short Smith, John Name: John Smith Home: 555-1234 Home: 123 Main Street Note: something something And the font size was small, and spacing compact. Beautiful --- I could fit *37* contacts to a page, and had no trouble reading them. With the more recent version of Evo (2 I think) it read Smith, John File As: Smith, John Full Name: John Smith Given Name: John Family Name: Smith Home Phone: 555-1234 Home Address: 123 Main Street Categories: Personal Note: something something (Note that "John" and "Smith" each appear 3 times) Now I down to 22 entries per page. Now in the latest version (2.2.3), the font size is way is up and the lines appear to be double spaced .... I now get only *7* entries per page ... my addressbook that used to fit in 5 pages now takes 28. Two suggestions: 1) Configure which fields are printed 2) Configure spacing and fonts size. Please please fix this - think of the trees ;) (This is on Fedora Core 4.)
*** Bug 202200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 200223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 208825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Consolidating all printing bugs. Basically we need to support multiple print formats for addressbooks, like envelope etc. We also need to provide an option for printing to standard label sizes. Fields which are to be printed should also be configurable and also the spacing and font sizes. Marking other printing bugs as duplicate of this one, so that we can track all printing issues in one place.
reassigning bugs that were still assigned to clahey.
*** Bug 438292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Also I *really* think this should be consider as a bug not an enhancement and it should have a higher priority than Normal but it's just my opinion.
*** Bug 556524 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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