Integration non kde applications with kdeprint]

[Roman Glebov]

 >On 5 November 2005 08:14, Roman Glebov wrote:

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>>I am planning to integrate kdeprint into inkscape.
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>Great to hear this!
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>>Ideas how it should be done ?
>>Sugestsions ?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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 ;-)
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>Thanks for your interest.
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Great ! :)

inkscape is a gtk application and iirc it has own postscript generation 
mechanism.
It has no printing dialog at all at the moment. When you start printing 
only a dialog appears ,where you enter print command. It is horrible for 
normal users.
I want simply this application to call kprinter when it wants to print . 
Also i would like
to add such things like preview .



What features does the kdeprint architecture provide ?

Print output of inkscape is very buggy at the moment, for example sizes 
do not match in output compared to original or even not all elements of 
a verctorbased picture are displayed, when printing as postscript.
Would kdeprint help solve it ?


Roman Glebov