KDE 3.1 - Poster Printing

[Michael Goffioul]

Using the kprinter tool, it's possible to use the kdeprint frame
work outside KDE. For more information, see

http://printing.kde.org/faq/kdeprint.phtml

Basically, kprinter is a replacement for the command-line tool "lpr".
By configuring non KDE apps to use kprinter instead of lpr, you can
access most of all kdeprint features, including poster printing,
assuming that the application generates PostScript (which is the
case for many apps).

Note also that the poster support in KDE-3.1 uses the poster utility.
So you need to have it installed anyway.

I uploaded binary packages (RPM) compiled under Mandrake-8.2. They
should be available in a few hours at that location:

http://printing.kde.org/downloads/

Michael.

Walt Pennington wrote:
> 
> I am looking forward to the poster printing in KDE 3.1.  I have tried to
> install the application, but keep having problems with the installation,
> and have decided to wait for its release in KDE 3.1.
> 
> A few questions concerning poster printing.  With this application, will
> you be able to:
> 
> 1.  Print posters from other non-KDE applications (i.e. OpenOffice.org)?
> 2.  Print posters from GIMP?
> 
> The students use a digital camera, take a picture of themselves, modify
> the picture, and then make it poster sized, and the teacher has posters
> of everyone on the walls.
> 
> Before this year, the teacher used StarOffice 6 in Windows.  Recently
> the teacher installed Linux on a new partition, and has the option of
> using StarOffice in Windows and OpenOffice in Linux.  This allows the
> students to use the drawings and impress formats in both Windows and
> Linux, and to move between computers.
> 
> Will a student that takes a picture with the digital camera, and then
> modifies it with OpenOffice be able to print this modified picture as a
> poster?
> 
> Thanks,
> Walt Pennington
> 
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