Command line control of: "kprinter".
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Wed Mar 24 07:17:54 CET 2004
Goffioul Michael wrote:
>>Thank you for your assistance.
>>
>>OK, so I tried this in HEAD:
>>
>> kprinter --nodialg -P "Print to File (PDF)" test.ps
>>
>>This results in a dialog popping up to ask me for the name of
>>the output
>>file. This isn't going to work. I need to be able to
>>specify the output
>>file name on the command line or to tell it to use the input
>>file base name
>>and change the extension to 'pdf'.
>
>
> This case is not forseen. Note that if you just want to convert
> a PS file to PDF, then the easiest is to use ps2pdf directly
> (which is kprinter does anyway).
Thanks. That answers my question. This functionality probably needs to be
added -- at least it appears that if a KDE application were to call this
that it should use 'kprinter' rather than directly call 'ps2pdf'.
--
JRT
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