Drag and Drop Printing

[Timothy England]

Does any one know if MS has stated that drag and drop printing in OS X
10.3.2 will work with Office v.X or Office:Mac 2004?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Does any one know if MS has stated that drag and drop printing in OS X
10.3.2 will work with Office v.X or Office:Mac 2004?

???????? Isn't this a system issue ???
Anyway, I haven't heard anything about that.



Corentin

 

[Timothy England]

No, it's not a system issue, as 10.3.2 has drag and drop printing as a
feature. The problem lies in how programs implement printing. Most
programs follow Apple's standard print functions, but Office does not.
Since drag and drop printing rely on calling the program to open the file
(unless it is PDF, Postscript, or text) and print them, a change in Office
applications would be necessary.

- Timothy

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

No, it's not a system issue, as 10.3.2 has drag and drop printing as a
feature.

Very true!!! I had completely forgotten that it was one of the "new"
features of MacOS X 10.3.

The problem lies in how programs implement printing. Most
programs follow Apple's standard print functions, but Office does not.

Actually I tried with many apps and very few support this.

Since drag and drop printing rely on calling the program to open the file
(unless it is PDF, Postscript, or text) and print them, a change in Office
applications would be necessary.

Well, in this case I suppose you should use the "send feedback" function
in the Help menu in Word to let the MacBU know :-\


Corentin

 

[Adam D. Blainey]

I don¹t see why it wouldn't work. Are you referring to the option in Panther
to put your Printer on the desktop in order to Drag & Drop documents onto it
to send to the printer queue?

 

[Timothy England]

It only works for the first document dropped on the printer. If you do
multiple documents, it discards them. I have not had this problem with
PDFs, BBEdit documents, Preview documents (jpg, gif, etc), or TextEdit
documents.

- Timothy