kde-print Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1

Paulo Pinto paulo.pinto at cern.ch
Fri Aug 13 17:21:57 CEST 2004


Ok,

I will try to look into this.


kde-print-request at kde.org wrote:

>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:01:59 +0200
>From: "Goffioul Michael" <goffioul at imec.be>
>Subject: RE: Using xprint in KDE-Print
>To: "For users and developers of KDEPrint,	the KDE printing
>	architecture" <kde-print at kde.org>
>Message-ID: <49056F0358EA754AB8420F7210B4CC07015E78B4 at e2k02.imec.be>
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>There's nothing currently to support XPrint. However, it'd be
>great if you want to do it. Note however that in the current
>KDE/Qt architecture, Qt is responsible for the print data rendering
>and conversion to PS, so kdeprint doesn't take care of it. What
>kdeprint (and its plugins) does is to list available printers,
>provide access to printer settings, and send the generated PS to
>the underlying print system (CUPS,LPR...) with the appropriate set
>of options. When possible some settings are fed back to the app,
>the main one being the page size extracted from a driver file.
>
>If you want to support XPrint in a plugin, there's a few classes
>to re-implement (the best is to look at an existing simple plugin
>like lpdunix or rlpr) like:
>- KMManager : this class is responsible for printer listing, driver
>loading...
>- KMUiManager: this class is responsible for the UI customization
>- KMJobManager : this class is responsible for the job listing and
>control
>- KPrinterImpl : this class is responsible for sending the job to
>the underlying print system
>
>Michael.
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Paulo Pinto [mailto:paulo.pinto at cern.ch]
>>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 15:34
>>To: kde-print at kde.org
>>Subject: Using xprint in KDE-Print
>>
>>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>Is there any plug-in support for using xprint in the KDE-Print
>>system?
>>
>>If not, how could I go about adding support for it?
>>
>>TIA,
>>Paulo
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