Integration non kde applications with kdeprint]

[Cristian Tibirna]

On 16 November 2005 17:42, Roman Glebov wrote:
>
> What i want to do is :
> 1) Program generates postscript file and passes it to kde print, kde
> print reformats it , for example places it correctly on page.
> 2) Program sends Bitmap, kprinter should again place it correctly on page.
>
> i found out quite quickly how to handle picture with kprinter .
> But what to do with postscript ? It can not be painted with qprinter ,
> right ?

> Should it be converted to bitmap first ?

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure you don't want to do that. You'll lose resolution in the 
process, probably.

Right now, if I understand correctly, kdeprint takes PS files as they are and 
just sends them to CUPS (and hence the printer), unless you configure filters 
like "poster", "psnup" and such. So, I think you might want to investigate 
what can you do with such filters. You can configure as many filters as you 
want (just look at how one of the existing filters is configured).


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Cristian Tibirna
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