kdeprint in kde 4

[James Richard Tyrer]

Rick Miles wrote:
> There are some programs that need to be told where to print. In kde 3.X 
> it was kprinter so for example when I want to print a document being 
> viewed with xpdf, when asked to enter a printer, I would enter kprinter 
> and the kprinter window would come up and I could select a printer and 
> options. It seems this is not the case in kde 4.X
> 
> 
> At http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDEPrint/KDE4#CUPS_Support iI found 
> this:
> 
> 
> "KDEPrint has been removed from kdelibs and kdecore for the 4.0 release. 
> All applications have been ported to use Qt's printing functions instead"
> 
Not the smartest design decision of 2008. :-)

> Kdeprint is being rewritten 

I don't think so.  Would you like to volunteer?  I would help.

> to but for now what is the alternative command?
> 
Are the printers listed in: "/etc/printcap"?  If so they should be 
listed in the list widget to the right of: "Name:".

If the printers aren't listed there, open the CUPS HTML page and check 
your configuration.

-- 
JRT

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