Interface question

[viktoras didziulis]

I would expect user wishing to see the layout before it is printed. So 
would put detail view and list view as options of View e.g.
View
--------------
Detail view
List view

And Print would simply print the current view.

Best wishes!
Viktoras


J. Landman Gay 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.
>
> How would you present this, and did I miss any options?
>