KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 11:26:36 Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>> Printing arbitrary page ranges/selections:  
>>> ==========================================
>>> The ability in the KPrintDialog to select to print only certain pages in
>>> a non-continuous range, e.g. 1, 4, 6-10.  This option is only available
>>> under CUPS and not under any other Printing Systems or Qt.  Nice to keep,
>>> but not fatal, can wait for 4.1.
>> The support for this feature by CUPS is simply achieved by passing "-o
>> page-ranges=1,4,6-10" to CUPS. CUPS receives *all* the pages, and extracts
>> the desired ranges from the received jobfile.
> 
> And this is extremely confusing.

I agree.

But at least it works (unlike some other important stuff in KDE3), and
works as it is designed; and it is also documented *how* it works, via
the "WhatsThis" help blurb.

> If you select one page only in a 10-page printout in KDE 3 and then check to 
> see the print preview, you see all 10 pages. I know from experience it'll 
> print only the pages I asked for, but I think it should be displaying only 
> the pages that will be printed.
> 
> In other words, the preview should happen after the page extraction. Which in 
> turn means that it's probably a client-side feature. Since I know that 
> KGhostView shows pages when I select Print Preview, I know it's still 
> somewhere in KDE code.

>From what I know about the (also completely unmaintained) kghostview, it
also shows all the pages (but has a checkbox with each thumbnail to select
the page for printing or not).


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