kcmshell printer: Copy to / psuedo printer? (print preview)

Ken Tanzer ktanzer at desc.org
Fri Mar 23 01:07:29 CET 2007


Hi.  We're running a computer lab where various workstations send their 
print jobs to a FC6 machine running a CUPS server.  CUPS is set to hold 
the jobs until they are manually released.  We want a way to be able to 
preview the jobs before they are printed.

I set up a pseudo-printer that calls kghostview, which works fine if you 
print via kprinter.  For the jobs coming from other machines, I looked 
at using the kcmshell printer module.  This is a great program, and 
almost does what I want.  It's got a "move job" option, but this only 
provides options for real printers, not the psuedo-printers.  Also, for 
this to work we'd need to be able to "copy" instead of "move" the job.

Does anyone know of another way to do this?  Alternatively, does anyone 
have a sense of how much work would be involved in adding this feature, 
or have some pointers about how to go about it?

Thanks in advance!

Ken

(note to self:  DESC bug 16101)
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