[Kde-print-devel] Fwd: [Kde-imaging] [Bug 120868] Failed to createPDF callendar

[Goffioul Michael]

> Hi guys,
> I kindly ask to this ML help in order to solve this small bug 
> in the Kipi-plugins. 
> Doing a PDF file using the KDE function "Print to PDF" our 
> code shows job completed ( 100% ) but the file it's writed by 
> kprinter and it takes minutes to be written We'd like to know 
> if it's possible to have a feedback of file writing for 
> kprinter, so that we shows the real progress of the job.
> Thanks in advance for any help

The PDF generation is actually performed by ghostscript through the
pseudo-printers mechanism. So the only "feedback" you can have currently
is "the process is running". Normally, the job viewer supports print
jobs
sent to pseudo printers, in that case print jobs are actually child
processes.
When sending a print job to a pseudo printer, the job viewer should be
started
and runs until the child process finishes.

Michael.