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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Michael,</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Can you elaborate how kprinter support foomatic
options (integer, float and string)? </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have Mandriva LE 2005 with KDE 3.3.2, Ot
3,3.4 and kprinter 0.0.1 (kprinter –v). </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I customized a PPD file that uses foomatic
string option, and only from XPP 1.5, I can specify arbitrary string input. Kprinter
only shows a list options. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>George</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Goffioul Michael
[mailto:goffioul@imec.be] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 18, 2005 2:05
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> For users and developers of
KDEPrint, the KDE printing architecture<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: kprinter support of
CUPS 1.2</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>These kind of options
were already supported by KDEPrint with Foomatic drivers (integer,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>float and string option
types). So basically, KDEPrint already contains the code to support</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>it, it just has to be
adapted to the CUPS syntax (the needed changes are mainly located</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>in the PPD parser).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Michael.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> George Liu
[mailto:george.liu@ussj.ricoh.com]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 01, 2005 19:18<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> kde-print@kde.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> kprinter support of CUPS
1.2</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>There’re still printer features only available
for Windows, like ProofJob, UserCode, LockedPrint. The main reason is CUPS PPD
doesn’t provide a mechanism to allow arbitrary user input. (Kprinter did
provide a mechanism to write a printer UI plugin, but has many limitations)</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>CUPS will have extended PPD support from 1.2. I copied
some part of cups/cups/sample.ppd from cups weekly build r4547.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Is it possible for kprinter to support those CUPS PPD
extentions? We do have a lot of Linux users craving to have all features that
are supported by Windows. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>George</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>*OpenUI IntOption/Integer: PickOne<br>
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *IntOption<br>
*DefaultIntOption: None<br>
*IntOption None: ""<br>
*IntOption 1: "<</cupsInteger0 1>>setpagedevice"<br>
*IntOption 2: "<</cupsInteger0 2>>setpagedevice"<br>
*IntOption 3: "<</cupsInteger0 3>>setpagedevice"<br>
*IntOption 4: "<</cupsInteger0 4>>setpagedevice"<br>
*IntOption 5: "<</cupsInteger0 5>>setpagedevice"<br>
*cupsUIType IntOption: Integer<br>
*cupsUIMinimum IntOption: "1"<br>
*cupsUIMaximum IntOption: "5"<br>
*cupsUICommand IntOption: "<</cupsInteger0 3 1
roll>>setpagedevice>>"<br>
*CloseUI: *IntOption<br>
<br>
*OpenUI RealOption/Real Number: PickOne<br>
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *RealOption<br>
*DefaultRealOption: None<br>
*RealOption None: ""<br>
*RealOption 1: "<</cupsReal0 1>>setpagedevice"<br>
*RealOption 2: "<</cupsReal0 2>>setpagedevice"<br>
*RealOption 3: "<</cupsReal0 3>>setpagedevice"<br>
*RealOption 4: "<</cupsReal0 4>>setpagedevice"<br>
*RealOption 5: "<</cupsReal0 5>>setpagedevice"<br>
*cupsUIType RealOption: Real<br>
*cupsUIMinimum RealOption: "1"<br>
*cupsUIMaximum RealOption: "5"<br>
*cupsUICommand RealOption: "<</cupsReal0 3 1
roll>>setpagedevice>>"<br>
*CloseUI: *RealOption<br>
<br>
*OpenUI TextOption/Text: PickOne<br>
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *TextOption<br>
*DefaultTextOption: None<br>
*TextOption None: ""<br>
*TextOption NOFORN: "<</cupsString0
(NOFORN)>>setpagedevice"<br>
*TextOption FOIA: "<</cupsString0 (FOIA)>>setpagedevice"<br>
*TextOption FOUO: "<</cupsString0 (FOUO)>>setpagedevice"<br>
*cupsUIType TextOption: Text<br>
*cupsUICommand TextOption: "<</cupsString0 3 1
roll>>setpagedevice>>"<br>
*CloseUI: *TextOption<br>
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