[kde] Printing via Konqueror

[Goffioul Michael]

This concept should be (or will be, I'm not sure) available in
all KOffice apps, through the "--print" flag. Desktop entries are
in koffice/tools/quickprint/, but they are currently not installed.

Michael.

> Des Dougan wrote:
> > In that other OS, I can select files, right click and select "Print"
> > (with the default application). Can I do this in Konq? I can't see a
> > menu option to allow me to do this.
> 
> Please disregard previous ideas that don't work.
> 
> Having researched this a little, I did get it to work with OpenOffice.
> 
> Place this file in: "$HOME/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/"
> 
> ooffice_print_service.desktop
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> ServiceTypes=application/vnd.sun.xml.writer
> Actions=Print_OO
> 
> [Desktop Action Print_OO]
> Name=Print file
> Exec=$HOME/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/soffice -p %F
> Icon=kjobviewer
> 
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> 
> {make any minor changes to the path in the: "Exec" line.
> 
> This does work on my system.
> 
> Note that if you wish to print other OpenOffice file types, 
> just add the 
> needed MIME types to the: "ServiceTypes=" (use ";" as the 
> delimiter -- NO 
> space}
> 
> Printing a PDF file is a much different issue.
> 
> I don't think that AAR will do this and you don't need it to do it.
> 
> In any case, you need to add a similar "*.desktop" file to 
> your global 
> "servicemenus" directory: 
> "$KDEDIR/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/":
> 
> pdf_print_service.desktop
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> ServiceTypes=application/pdf
> Actions=Print_PDF
> 
> [Desktop Action Print_PDF]
> Name=Print file
> Exec=<command> %F
> Icon=kjobviewer
> 
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> 
> I hope that you can see a patten here.  The names must be 
> unique and the 
> MIME type must be the correct MIME type.  The only question 
> is what to use 
> as the <command>.
> 
> NOTE: I think that KDE should have this capability built in 
> and you might 
> want to file a wish request for it:
> 
> 	http://bugs.kde.org/
> 
> There appear to be two possible ways to do this.
> 
> 1.	The print filter could be setup to directly print PDF 
> files.  Yours
> 	might be able to do this, but I find that the one on my system
> 	(GNUlpr) isn't.  If it was, you could just use the 
> printer command
> 	(e.g. "lpr") for <command>.
> 
> 2.	You can write a shell script that will print the PDF 
> file directly.
> 	Use GhostScript to convert the file to PS and then print it, and
> 	use the script name (e.g. "print_pdf") as the command.
> 
> --
> JRT
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