KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

Kurt Pfeifle k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Fri Sep 14 10:15:58 BST 2007


John Layt wrote:

> Basic/KDE3 Print Preview:  
> =========================
> Generates a ps file of the document which gets displayed, but is not
> necessarily what the printer will generate.  Basically what you would
> get if you printed the doc without any changes to the print settings.
> The downside is if you do change print settings in KPrintDialog, such as
> margins, 2-up, etc, these are not shown.  Must have for 4.0.

Not entirely correct.

For example, if you print from Kate or Konqueror, you *will* get to see
the margins you set.

Or if you did the n-up with a prefilter, you'll also see it in the pre-
view.

Confusing, I know...

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Kurt Pfeifle
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