no simple way to print a QTextDocument in KDE(?)

[Cristian Tibirna]

On 26 July 2007 06:04, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 04:06:53 Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> > Why not simply printing to a PostScript stream (in memory or on disk)
> > using QPrinter then sending *that* to KPrinter?
>
> The biggest problem with kprinter right now is that it doesn't work well
> with PDF.  And postscript only supports a subset of features from PDF.

Well, to be honest, I fail to see how that is (but it's true I didn't visit 
the QPrinter API since Qt4 appeared, to see what's new there -- yeah, I know, 
scandalous, but spare-time sixpacks are backorder in stores near my 
house --).

KPrinter has-a QPrinter. If QPrinter supports PDF better than Q3Printer, 
KPrinter should too. Right now PDF is printed to PS then sent to printers 
anyways. This is, for now, mandatory. Let's hope that with support (already 
hinted) from manufacturers, we will be able to switch to direct PDF printing 
in 2 to 5 years.

Generating PDF as final product is another history. Up to know, we used ps2pdf 
from the ghostscript suite. We definitely will have to get to native PDF 
generating ASAP. Code is always welcomed.

-- 
Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. tibirna at kde.org .. http://www.kde.org
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