kprinter cli + preview

[Achim Bohnet]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 22:18, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> fab wrote:
> 
> > My problem : I don't have the preview option in the kprinter window when I use 
> > it with the command line (typically > kprinter test.ps ). Is it normal ?
> 
> Currently yes. This is by design. Preview only works with PostScript input files.
> Michael argued that it is only guaranteed to be PostScript, if kprinter is started
> from within a KDE application (which will generate PostScript as print output).

Uhmm, I thought the 'preview' feature is not implemented yet and we just
have to wait a bit :(

> However, I'd support to enable the preview option from the comand line too.
> (Possibly with an extra switch like "--enable-postscript-preview"...).

--such-a-long-option for doing the obvious? Bad UI design IMHO :)
Preview can be enabled if mimemagic detects an ps
file,  like in the 'kprinter my-post-file' case (I guess).

Achim
> 
> I'm glad you are joining my forces...  ;-)   Now we need a few more arguments
> to convince Michael....
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt
> 
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