KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Alex Merry wrote:
> On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> John Layt wrote:
>>> Custom Margins:
>>> ===============
>>> Unique KDE feature to set custom margins for the print job.  This
>>> is not the document margins you find in KWord, but defining the
>>> print area on the page that the document will be painted into and
>>> scaled to fit.  (??? Not sure, I don't think anyone besides Kurt is
>>> 100% clear on this :-)
>> First of all (and initially in KDEPrint's development), this GUI
>> control was simply the frontend to passing to CUPS the commandline
>> option (for example):
>>
>>   -o page-top=11 -o page-bottom=12 -o page-left=13 -o page-right=14
>>
>> Nothing more. CUPS supports this only for text and image printing
>> (i.e. when CUPS receives the job as a text or image file, not
>> PostScript or else). Later, some applications (like KHTML and Kate)
>> took advantage of this, and read the setting from the kprinter
>> dialog, and in turn adapted the PS output they generate for printing
>> by honoring the setting.
> 
> In which case, it sounds like a feature applications should be adding to 
> the dialog box by adding in a tab, rather than something kde print 
> should deal with.  We don't want an option that may or may not be 
> honoured, depending on how the application happens to send the data.

It *is* honored (AFAIK). Applications that don't honor it don't show
the "Margins" tab. Compare f.e. the kprinter dialog started from kword
with the one started from kspread.


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