First of all, thanks for taking the time to write down all of these comments.
I can see your point with WMF since WMF is typically a somewhat “unit-less” format where it is usually placed in another document for illustrative purposes (Word, Excel, …). In this case, a redesign of the WMF export dialog may be the best solution. Of course, I’m being lazy and trying to reuse as much as possible which is why the WMF export dialog looks just like the print dialog which happens to look just like the PDF export dialog… For WMF, it may be best to just ask for a window area or bounding box and then I can make up all of the other internally needed values.
Yep, it’s been on my list for quite a while. I haven’t focused much on the printing system during V6 development until now (I’ve had my head buried in display rewrite for a long time.)
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-3300
I’m still not convinced that your WMF workflow would be the best for PDF. It seems like the WMF dialog could definitely be simplified with respect to just selecting a print area and I can make up a true width/height combination that works. PDF seems like it needs to have a drop-down with a large set of pre-canned paper sizes as well as a custom size that you can just set since PDF really is targeted at creating pages of given sizes.
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-30081
I moved this back to my 6.0 list. Somehow this slipped by me and I didn’t realize it was a regression.