Integration non kde applications with kdeprint]

[Cristian Tibirna]

On 5 November 2005 11:31, Roman Glebov wrote:
>
> 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 ?

Please start by looking at http://printing.kde.org/ and especially 
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/kdeprint/ then please any further 
questions you might have.

> 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 ?

Hmm... if the bugs you specify are in the postscript rendering, kdeprint won't 
be able to help with correcting these. But if the generated postscript is 
correct, I don't see why kdeprint won't offer a good user interface for the 
printing itself. Adding preview option might require some work, but you know 
how the saying goes: "everything is possible" (especially in Free Software).

I patiently wait for your questions.

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