[kde-linux] KWrite/printer problem

[david]

Bruce Miller wrote:

> Conclusions: 1. The lateness of the hour here in eastern Canada (and
> the length of my day) did not allow me to test Konqueror in a plain
> vanilla form, that is, without changing any of its default margins.
> However, after a change to the margins, documents printed without
> text being lost at the page breaks. This was the problem that has
> driven me crazy for the last two years and which led another user to
> start this thread. 2. The problem rendering the table (point 7 above)
> suggests that the KDE print engine still needs considerable work. 3.
> The lack of a function for printing only a part of, rather than an
> entire, document is an important hole in KDE's overall functionality 
> 4. It is my personal judgement --- others will obviously have
> different perspectives --- that the persistent problems with printing
> in KDE4 are the most important outstanding regression in end-user
> usefulness from KDE3.5 to KDE4. kprinter used to be a gem of KDE. I
> have read that it was becoming beastly to maintain, but it remains a
> shame to have lost it. I need to put on an asbestos suit to say this,
> but in my view, the best currently available printer control software
> that I know of is FinePrint and it is (gasp!) commercial software for
> Windows.

I remember FinePrint. It has a long pedigree in the world of printer 
software!

I use TurboPrint - also commercial software, but available for both 
Linux and Windows (I think) - for my Canon inkjet because it does a far 
better job printing photos than the non-commercial Linux drivers do.

Conclusion: Bruce's mail software doesn't send paragraphs wrapped 
properly. ;-)

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David
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