On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:46:10 Rick Miles wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 11:29:44 James Richard Tyrer wrote: > > Rick Miles wrote: > > > There are some programs that need to be told where to print. In kde 3.X > > > it was kprinter so for example when I want to print a document being > > > viewed with xpdf, when asked to enter a printer, I would enter kprinter > > > and the kprinter window would come up and I could select a printer and > > > options. It seems this is not the case in kde 4.X > > > > > > > > > At http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDEPrint/KDE4#CUPS_Support iI found > > > this: > > > > > > > > > "KDEPrint has been removed from kdelibs and kdecore for the 4.0 > > > release. All applications have been ported to use Qt's printing > > > functions instead" > > > > Not the smartest design decision of 2008. :-) > > I get the impression allot of things were expendible for the sake of > competitive eye candy. I used both kooka and kpdf all the time and they're > down the third tube on the left also. I'll grant there are some welcome > improvements under the hood but what about useability? Seems they left arts > in, probably a trade off, arts or kdeprint which one should we keep. > FUD > That's probably not fair but I couldn't help myself > You can always help yourself. > > > Kdeprint is being rewritten > > > > I don't think so. Would you like to volunteer? I would help. > > I can work my way around it, if I had the time and expertise there are > other aps I'd port first. > > > > to but for now what is the alternative command? > > > > Are the printers listed in: "/etc/printcap"? If so they should be > > listed in the list widget to the right of: "Name:". > > My printers are networked > They should still be listed in /etc/printcap > > If the printers aren't listed there, open the CUPS HTML page and check > > your configuration. > > Acroread works well enough but IMHO as good as kpdf used to work for > previwing .pdfs. Seems kpdf would render with the fonts I used. Acroread > does not weem to do this. Once I have the .pdf looking the way I want and > previewed in xpdf which seems to gives me a truer rendering of the document > I can just print with the folowing command noting that "colour is the name > of the networked printer and XX the number of copies to print. > > lp-cups -d colour -n XX flyer1.pdf > > I could make up a scriptusing kdialog for doing this for others > uncomfortable on the command line but its not necessary here. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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