Interface question

[Sarah Reichelt]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:08 AM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering how people would do this.
>
> I have two print layouts, "detail" and "list", and the user needs to be able
> to print data using the layout of their choice. I can think of three ways to
> allow this:
>
> 1. Have two Print menu items in the File menu, like this:
>
>   Print Detail View
>   Print List View
>
> 2. I could make a submenu from the Print menu item (but I don't think I've
> ever seen this done before):
>
>   Print -> Detail View
>            List View
>
> 3. Or I could put an option in the Preferences and Print would use whichever
> option was selected there. But this doesn't sound very intuitive to me, and
> forces the user to go to Prefs to change it each time.
>

I would go with option 1. Option 2 is OK, but I don't like option 3.

Sarah