This concept should be (or will be, I'm not sure) available in
all KOffice apps, through the "--print" flag. Desktop entries are
in koffice/tools/quickprint/, but they are currently not installed.
Michael.
> Des Dougan wrote:
> > In that other OS, I can select files, right click and select "Print"
> > (with the default application). Can I do this in Konq? I can't see a
> > menu option to allow me to do this.
>
> Please disregard previous ideas that don't work.
>
> Having researched this a little, I did get it to work with OpenOffice.
>
> Place this file in: "$HOME/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/"
>
> ooffice_print_service.desktop
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> ServiceTypes=application/vnd.sun.xml.writer
> Actions=Print_OO
>
> [Desktop Action Print_OO]
> Name=Print file
> Exec=$HOME/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/soffice -p %F
> Icon=kjobviewer
>
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
>
> {make any minor changes to the path in the: "Exec" line.
>
> This does work on my system.
>
> Note that if you wish to print other OpenOffice file types,
> just add the
> needed MIME types to the: "ServiceTypes=" (use ";" as the
> delimiter -- NO
> space}
>
> Printing a PDF file is a much different issue.
>
> I don't think that AAR will do this and you don't need it to do it.
>
> In any case, you need to add a similar "*.desktop" file to
> your global
> "servicemenus" directory:
> "$KDEDIR/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/":
>
> pdf_print_service.desktop
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> ServiceTypes=application/pdf
> Actions=Print_PDF
>
> [Desktop Action Print_PDF]
> Name=Print file
> Exec=<command> %F
> Icon=kjobviewer
>
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
>
> I hope that you can see a patten here. The names must be
> unique and the
> MIME type must be the correct MIME type. The only question
> is what to use
> as the <command>.
>
> NOTE: I think that KDE should have this capability built in
> and you might
> want to file a wish request for it:
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/
>
> There appear to be two possible ways to do this.
>
> 1. The print filter could be setup to directly print PDF
> files. Yours
> might be able to do this, but I find that the one on my system
> (GNUlpr) isn't. If it was, you could just use the
> printer command
> (e.g. "lpr") for <command>.
>
> 2. You can write a shell script that will print the PDF
> file directly.
> Use GhostScript to convert the file to PS and then print it, and
> use the script name (e.g. "print_pdf") as the command.
>
> --
> JRT
>
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