Printer driver UI [proposal]
Mike Sweet
kde-print@mail.kde.org
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:06:42 -0500
Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> ...
> The problem with this is that it isn't portable to printing systems
> other than CUPS. The PPD file will work with other printing systems,
> but unless you've done something really clever the non-standard
> options won't be accessible. There either needs to be a well-defined
> extension to PPD files that allows things like this, or a new file
> format.
Fortunately, I can be really clever.
Extended options are visible to non-CUPS enabled clients as PickOne
options with standard values (basically the way things are with the
current GIMP-print driver numeric options...) This doesn't give you
complete control, but it does allow you to define your own "standard"
values...
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Printing Software for UNIX http://www.easysw.com