Poster functionality in kprinter?

[Ferdinand Gassauer]

Michael Goffioul wrote:

>> Hi... I've read the post here:
>> 
>> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-print/2002-October/000095.html
>> 
>> That tells how to use kprinter with the 'poster' application. The
>> problem is, I don't seem to even see the 'poster' tab. When I run
>> 'poster' directly on an EPS document (produced by gimp) it just produces
>> a mess with little slivers of the image on the left side of the page.
> 
> For "Poster"-tab to appear in the printer properties dialog you need:
> - KDE-3.1 (it's not in 3.0.x)
> - poster utility as downloaded from http://printing.kde.org/downloads
> - "poster" executable accessible through your PATH variable
> 
> Second point is that I never tried the "poster" utility on EPS
> generated by gimp, so I don't know where the fault is to be found.
> Could anybody with a running poster setup make the test for me?
> (I'm not running Linux these days).
> 
> Michael.
> 
Hmm poster-tab in properties ?
IMHO most user will not think printing a poster is a property of a printer
but a property of  the printjob.
It's not on the properties tab of the printer either (but on
instances/settings)
So I think poster should go next to the "copies tab"
-- 
cu
ferdinand