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

[Thomas Zander]

On Saturday 28 July 2007 15:32:53 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 July 2007 12:45:31 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yap; and that's a required feature for KOffice to use KDEPrint.
>
> But you are not implying that you cannot hand over PDF to kprinter for
> printing already *now*, or are you?

Hmm, let me try to see if I follow this sentence;
I need to generate PDFs directly from a KOffice app, Generating postscript 
is not usable since we'd loose fidelity.
Therefore I can't use kdeprint *at all* in kword (and thats the reason you 
see a silly "MyPrint" file entry in the kword file menu which creates an 
output.pdf in the current dir).

So, right now I'm not using kdeprint at all.

Does that answer your question?

> (I hope the 'bread-and-butter' issues of properly embed fonts into the
> print files are not neglected over such printing features that are more
> akin 'nice-to-have' such as real transparency stuff...)

Those things are all already fixed if we print to PDFs directly.  As you 
know Qt4 postscript printing is not really upto-date. (it uses a rather 
old standard) So if I were forced to print to postscript I'd loose proper 
font including font properties and indeed also nifty features like 
transparency and page-bleed settings.
Though I don't think transparency is a 'nice-to-have'; its a base 
requirement.

Anyway; the bug is recorded on techbase and I hope someone will feel 
compelled to make kdeprint honor the new QPrinter feature of being able 
to create a PDF directly.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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