kdeprint in kde 4

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:46:10 Rick Miles wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 11:29:44 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > 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. :-)
>
> I get the impression allot of things were expendible for the sake of
> competitive eye candy.  I used both kooka and kpdf all the time and they're
> down the third tube on the left also.  I'll grant there are some welcome
> improvements under the hood but what about useability? Seems they left arts
> in, probably a trade off, arts or kdeprint which one should we keep.
>
FUD

> That's probably not fair but I couldn't help myself
>
You can always help yourself.

> > > Kdeprint is being rewritten
> >
> > I don't think so.  Would you like to volunteer?  I would help.
>
> I can work my way around it, if I had the time and expertise there are
> other aps I'd port first.
>
> > > 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:".
>
> My printers are networked
>
They should still be listed in /etc/printcap

> > If the printers aren't listed there, open the CUPS HTML page and check
> > your configuration.
>
>  Acroread works well enough but IMHO as good as kpdf used to work for
> previwing .pdfs. Seems kpdf would render with the fonts I used. Acroread
> does not weem to do this. Once I have the .pdf looking the way I want and
> previewed in xpdf which seems to gives me a truer rendering of the document
> I can just print with the folowing command noting that "colour is the name
> of the networked printer and XX the number of copies to print.
>
> lp-cups -d colour -n XX flyer1.pdf
>
> I could make up a scriptusing kdialog for doing this for others
> uncomfortable on the command line but its not necessary here.

Anne
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