hacking around with cups etc, now kprinter can't find cups

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 13 September 2004 02:38, Goffioul Michael wrote:
>> Where does one define the default "printer" font size?  Does the
>> one in kmail carry over to all kprinter output?  I've played with
>> that some, but it seems as if the printer font size selected is
>> used for the screen too.  Or is that a bug and it should be a
>> seperate one you never see the result of until you actually print?
>
>This is application specific. The application is the only
> responsible for the print content, hence the font size. Most
> applications doesn't make a difference between screen fonts and
> printer fonts. One exception is kwrite. However, the usual behavior
> for an app is to select font size such that printed size is more or
> less the same as screen size.

Which may, or more likely not, be correct, Michael.  Ots probably just 
fine for those that run with an 800x600 screen.  The singularly 
glareing exception to this rule would be when the native screenmode 
is 1600x1200, meaning my 17+ screen is about 150dpi effectively and 
to get easily readable fonts on such a screen, the font in the app is 
cranked up to some 18 to 24 point selection.

That gets pretty ugly on paper.  For exactly that reason, when I am 
about to print a bank statement screen from mozilla, I goto the 
perfs/fonts and bring the minimum size down to 12, which is very 
difficult to read on screen, then print the screen which makes a very 
nice printout, then reset it to a 24 point minimum for my normal 
browseing.

kmail has a seperate printing font, and it now works, a first at 
kde3.3.  I couldn't seem to divorce the printer selection from the 
screen fonts as recently as 3.2.3.  But other apps should either dup 
that function, or possibly link to it as they feed kprinter.  
Actually, to make sense to the average user, that function really 
should be moved from kmail to kprinter so that a one size fits all 
setting can be made in one common location.

The ideal would be to use the same font selected for screen display, 
but scaled by whatever diff the screen dpi was in relation to the std 
72dpi on paper that postscript assumes unless told otherwise.  That 
would then scale my 150dpi screen down by 50% to put it on paper and 
the end result would be exactly what we're looking for.

All in favor raise your hand...

>Michael.

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