Just had my first experience trying to get something to work with Prince 9. The new GUI front end is pretty but its function seems to be lacking in some areas that make its use kind of tedious:
- The open dialog always shows the Prince directory in /Program Files. It would save a number of clicks if the dialog remembered the last Open request and presented that same directory to select the file to insert. This applies to XML, CSS and Javascript files.
- The "Merge all documents into a single PDF file" checkbox and its "Open Folder" button are greyed out until one actually does a "Convert". Should be available before a Convert is done.
- The earlier edition had a button by which one could view the converted file if the conversion was successful. That seems to be missing. A thought: maybe a checkbox that says "Show PDF after conversion" to avoid clicking something. And show it in a separate window, not the Prince window.