Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [RFC] Proposal for Print, Save and Export functionality

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:33:57AM +0200, Biot Olivier wrote:
> The "Print" menu item deals with producing paper output only.
> "print to file" means producing a file containing printer output which can
> later be fed to a printer.

...or read in, for example, a PDF viewer, so, in the strict sense, it's
not *just* paper output.

Other than that, it sounds good.

> The "Save" and "Save As" menu items deal with saving the packet capture to a
> file so it can later be processed again by Ethereal.

Sounds good.

> The "Export" menu item deals with exporting information derived from the
> packets to a file.

Possibly, although I'm not sure whether the text and PDML dissection
information would be more obvious to the user as "Export" or "Save
Dissection As".

> The menu tree I see is:
> /File/Save As... --> Same "Save As" dialog as we have today (choose packet
> file format and packets to save).

Yes.

> /File/Print --> No PS output (unless we agree that PS is always a printer
> output format), no PDML output.

No PDML output, but I'd see it as the right place of PDF output and
possibly PS output - if for no other reason than that some other GUIs
work that way.