[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 115513] Cannot print raw ASCII text

[Billy J.West Jr.]

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------- Additional Comments From lnxusr sbcglobal net  2005-11-03 09:05 -------
OK.  I wasn't using kprinter directly, I was using it through Kate and Kword.  If I print a text file directly with kprinter (kprinter test.txt on a command line), I get the dialog you mention and selecting "Keep" does print the text properly.

When I print text from a KDE application I get the kprinter dialog where I choose the printer and hit print.  I get no dialog asking me what to do with the data, I just get postscript code printed vice the text that should be printed.  

None of this is what should be happening.  KDE should know, or there should be somewhere to tell it, that a raw printer is just that.  Kprinter should not open a dialog box telling me "The file format text/plain is not directly supported by the current printer system." and asking me if I want to convert to postscript.  It's a raw printer, so send it the data as is.  There should also be some type of feedback between kprinter and a kapplication as to wheather or not a conversion to postscript is required/desired according to the printer selected.  The only time a warning box should be displayed is if there are graphics in the file and you are printing to a raw printer.

Perhaps raw mode isn't quite what should be used here.  Maybe there should be somewhere to tell kprinter or KDE that a printer is ASCII text only.