kprinter support of CUPS 1.2

[Goffioul Michael]

> George Liu wrote:
> > Michael,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Can you elaborate how kprinter support foomatic options 
> (integer, float 
> > and string)?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I have Mandriva LE 2005 with KDE 3.3.2, Ot 3,3.4 and kprinter 0.0.1 
> > (kprinter –v).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I customized a PPD file that uses foomatic string option, 
> and only from 
> > XPP 1.5, I can specify arbitrary string input. Kprinter 
> only shows a 
> > list options.
> > 
> >
> 
> String/password options I have introduced into Foomatic much 
> later than 
> numerical options. Probably that time there was no 
> development activity 
> any more on KDE Print (except bug fixes), so chances are not 
> very hogh 
> that KDE Print supports string/password options.

KDEPrint can support string (not password), float and integer options
for Foomatic-2 drivers, not for Foomatic-3 drivers. I never found the
time to do it but, it's just a matter of adapting the PPD parser of
kdeprint.

Michael.