kprinter cli + preview

[Till Kamppeter]

I suggest that kprinter auto-detects whether the input is PostScript (by 
reading the first few lines and buffering them) and this way decide 
whether to enable the "preview" button.

    Till


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).
> 
> However, I'd support to enable the preview option from the comand line too.
> (Possibly with an extra switch like "--enable-postscript-preview"...).
> 
> I'm glad you are joining my forces...  ;-)   Now we need a few more 
> arguments
> to convince Michael....
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt
> 
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