kdeprint in kde 4

[Rick Miles]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 04:22:10 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Rick Miles wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > You might note a previous post of mine today where I could not print a
> > pdf with okular as it asks me what filter to use and then won't do
> > anything with any of those offered for selection.
>
> That is very strange.  I have KDE-4.2.1 from source and all I can say is
> that it works OK for me.  However, if you have >= 4.2.0, I would report
> it as a bug.
>
Check my previous reply to you, I'm not quite sure if we are comparing apples to 
apples, perhaps my qt isn't up to yours.
> > I'm only interested in a pdf reader which IMHO kpdf did a better job of
> > for me than acroread, Dunno about the "more features" I just want three:
> > view, preview and print. Small and simple is nice.
>
> I see your point and with people using Dolphin, we do need an app that
> is basically just a frame for the KParts.  I would suggest that if you
> just need the basic functions that you use the Okular part in Konqueror
> rather than opening the app.
 Anything will do for a reader I suppose but yesterday I was revising a flyer, 
checking to see if the edits were in the revised pdf and then checking the print 
preview before printing.  Kpdf seemed to produce a better facsimili of a pdf both 
as a reader then as a print preview so I can live without it but I have not 
figured out why it is asking me what filter to use. It don't know and neither do 
I.
> > I really could care less whether I use kooka or not if the replacement,
> > scanlite, has some documentation so maybe I can figure out how to get it
> > to see my networked scanner which xsane has no problem doing and it to
> > uses the sane backend.
>
> Won't help you now, but if it doesn't find your networked scanner,
> report the bug.
I'm not sure it is a bug maybe a limitation (no Fud intended Anne) but I have 
found the problem.

Scanlite is a frontend for sane and the utiltiy sane-find-scanner does not see my 
scanner although I can use the sane cli command "scanimage -L", i.e. list, to 
identify my scanner:

rick at rick:~$ scanimage -L
device `net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is a 
Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one

I'd quess that skanlite parses the ouput of sane-find-scanner to create a list of 
scanner device(s) and so it will not open for me because sane-find-scanner does 
not list my networked scanner.

However, I can open skanlite and scan if I run this command in konsole:

skanlite -d  net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is a 
Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one 

Thats fine and dandy but it Thats cli and one of those unmemorable commands so if 
I want to take the easy way out its a matter of editing the skanlite in kmenuedit 
so that the command entry looks like this:

scanlite %u -d net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ

and if I want an icon that works I will need to edit 
/usr/share/applications/kde-4/scanlite.desktop so it looks like this.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=skanlite -caption "%c" %i -d 
net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ
Icon=skanlite
X-DocPath=skanlite/index.html
Terminal=false
Name=Skanlite
<snip>

Note that <snip> was mine and the file is much longer due to internationalisation. 
Also there is no icon for scanlite so I'll have to use some other image and 
provide a path after "Icon=" maybe I'll use the old kpdf icon just for the heck of 
it :^)








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Cheers,

Rick Miles

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