HELP WANTED: kdeprint with GNUlpr

[Till Kamppeter]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> I have volunteered to work on kdeprint's LPR support.
> 
> After a delay in getting my new system up and running -- the only thing 
> left is to get KOffice-1.3 working -- I will get started on this.
> 
> The most important thing is to get the kjobviewer to work.  The code 
> looks basically OK, so this is a debugging issue.
> 
> Then before doing any more, the question is.  Do we want LPR support?
> 
> The GNUlpr project is currently inactive. :-(  Therefore, if we are 
> going to have LPR support, KDE is going to have to adopt the project and 
> fork it.  To do this, we need an ace C++ coder (I am an ace programmer 
> but a C++ newbie) to get the current code release:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3800&release_id=63447 
> 
> 
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lpr/gnulpr-1.0.1.tar.gz?download
> 
> to build with the current GCC release.  I worked at this for a while, 
> but didn't succeed in getting it to work.
> 
> This would then become the Klpr project and KDE would have a native 
> print system.
> 
> Also I would appreciate anyone willing to use GNUlpr as their print 
> system to assist in getting the KDE support working.  I managed to 
> install: lpr-0.72 from source but had to install the RPMs for some of 
> the support stuff that wouldn't build on the new compiler.
> 
> You will also need to install GhostScript-8.11 built from source as an 
> SO -- make so && make soinstall.  And install the gsk patch to your 
> source code for KDE:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/files/gs-fix/gsk-1.0.patch.bz2
> 
> The gsk executable is currently just a script.  This will need to be 
> expanded into a C/C++ executable that will call the GhostScript library 
> directly.
> 
> And, patch Qt so that you can use PostScript data files without the 
> fonts embedded.
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/files/qt-x11-free-3.2.1-PSfontname.patch.bz2 
> 
> 
> This will patch qt-3.2.2 but has NOT been tested on qt-3.2.2 yet (I have 
> to have KOffice for that).  Updates will be posted the same place:
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/files/
> 
> Any comments?
> 

Why don´t you use LPRng (http://www.lprng.com/)? It is absolutely 
compatible to LPD, it is under active development, much more secure, 
integrates better with Foomatic (http://www.linuxprinting.org/), has 
bi-di support (printer status check, page accounting with hardware 
counter, ...), will sone ghav propagation of printer capability 
information from servers to clients via PPD files (similar to CUPS), ...

    Till