[Kde-print-devel] KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting

[Kurt Pfeifle]

John Layt wrote:

> Server-side Print Preview: 
> ==========================
> The printer sub-system (e.g. CUPS) generates the Print Preview for you,
> so it is exactly how the printer will render it and fully reflects all
> settings selected.  Not currently supported in KDE or Qt, but the ultimate 
> aim.

Not correct.

CUPS recently added the API (and an operation as an IPP extension) that
allows the print client to retrieve the jobfile *as* *it* *arrived* *at*
*the* *CUPS* *server*.

This allows for 'previewing' if you know how to display the file (which
is not *necessarily* PostScript -- it could also be PCL, HP/GL, any
image file format, PDF, unknown binary stuff...

It does not show what the jobfile is like *after* it passed any of the
potential CUPS filters.

-- 
Kurt Pfeifle
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