libkdeprint

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Alex Merry wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 Oct 2007, Tom Albers wrote:
>> At Tuesday 16 October 2007 10:47, you wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 16 October 2007 01:53:55 Pino Toscano wrote:
>>>>> Commnents/yes/no?
>>>> From okular's point of view, no.
>>> Simply objecting without giving alternate solutions doesn't help
>>> the open discussion. What do you have in mind as an alternate
>>> solution?
>> You all know I'm pretty naive and do not know anything about
>> printing. So if you tell me to shut up, I will.
>>
>> I've a simple question. Isn't there a possibility for QPrinter to
>> simply accept a ps or pdf blob and deal with that?
> 
> No.  The reason for that is that would require QPrinter to be a PDF/PS 
> renderer (it's cross-platform, and you can't just throw a PDF or PS 
> file at the Windows print system).

I doubt there were any worth-while efforts to deeply look into the
Windows print system and see what could be done with it.

(And I wonder how Qt3 did work on Windows then at all; did it just
ignore printing altogether, and not provide any hooks into the
MS Windows printing system up to now?! I wonder how all these Qt3-
based Windows applications that can create printable documents did
cope with that then. Are you saying Picasa can't print?? I'm asking
honestly, because I never looked into it...)

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