Integration non kde applications with kdeprint

[Cristian Tibirna]

On 5 November 2005 08:14, Roman Glebov wrote:
> I am planning to integrate kdeprint into inkscape.

Great to hear this!

> Ideas how it should be done ?
> Sugestsions ?

Depends at what level you want to integrate. The easiest and the most obvious 
is to just configure inkscape to use the kde "kprinter" application as the 
default printing command, when available. Any application (kde or not) can do 
this, provided that its printing command is configurable.

A deeper level of integration would mean, of course, linking with kdelibs, so 
that you get access to the printing API offered by the kdeprint "sublibrary". 
The printing API offers to the application a qt/kde-specific mechanism for 
generating the Postscript code that will then be sent to the printer. I know 
little of the internals of inkscape (I don't even know if it uses gtk 
throughout or mixes multiple libraries ... mind you, I should investigate, 
but I want to give you a first general answer). So, I know little about 
internals of inkscape but I guess it would require some important adaptations 
in its printing mechanisms in order to use the full power of the kdeprint 
architecture.

Feel free to ask. I'm definitely interested in your work/experience, as this 
will help me see in what measure kdeprint can become a generic technology, 
cross-desktop and (eventually) cross-platform. These are long term goals for 
me, but it's good to start early ;-)

Thanks for your interest.

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Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. tibirna at kde.org .. http://www.kde.org