[Bug 515856] Re: Importing a document should not prompt for page range to import

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:51:50PM -0000, Nicolas Marchildon wrote:
> Yes, this is a small inconvenience. It would be a smaller inconvenience
> if the dialog appeared right after selecting the files. When I open a 10

Unfortunately, this is how long tiffinfo needs to extract the number
of pages in the file.

> or 20-page PDF, I have to wait something like 20 seconds before seeing
> the dialog, after which it takes an other 20 seconds to complete the
> import. If the dialog appeared faster, I could do something else while
> the document loads.

It is possible that in the future I might write perl bindings for
libtiff, which might speed things up a bit.

> An other alternative would be to add an "Import page range" menu option
> below "Import document".

I think I like the option in preferences better.

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Importing a document should not prompt for page range to import
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