KDE Print porting - help needed

[John Layt]

On Saturday 13 October 2007, John Layt wrote:
> The alternative would be for okular/ligature/kgv to adapt their screen
> painting routines to work with printing, but I think it's a bit much for us
> to expect them to take on such a workload for a change we instigated.

Hmmm, in okular there's a class PagePainter with a method:

static void paintPageOnPainter( QPainter * p, const Okular::Page * page, 
                                int pixID, int flags, int scaledWidth,
                                int scaledHeight, const QRect & pageLimits );

It shouldn't be hard it to iterate over the page list selected in the print 
dialog, call this method to paint the page, with the required newPage() call 
in-between?  I realise this could be slower than calling the generator ps 
routine, and may result in lower quality output, but it would be portable 
across all platforms.

John.

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