automated printing from konqurer

[David Faure]

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On Sunday 02 February 2003 21:14, Nicholas Grabowski wrote:
> Developers
> 
> I am trying to automate a print job from konqueror.  Basically, what I
> want to do is:
> 1.) Communicate to conqueror from another program.
> 2.) Open a url with konqueror.
> 3.) Print that url to a file or printer.
> 
> Note: there should be no user interaction to the printing or konqueror,
> i.e. I would like to either extend konqueror and add some functionality
> that allows me to print to the default printer.  Then I would like to
> embed it in my app, or instantiate a konqueror instance and call the new
> api that will allow me to print the url I open.  
> 
> To this point I've looked at two options:
> 1.) Use the DCOP interface. I was only able to get as far as popping up
> the printer interface.  Beyond that I was not able to pragmatically
> finish the process.  I.E. force the print dialog to print.  It does not
> seem that it will be possible to do what I want via the DCOP
> action(print) command. However, I'm open to suggestions if you feel this
> is the best way to proceed.

In KOffice we added a DCOP call "print( bool quick )",
where quick=true means "use default printer, don't show dialog box".

What about we do the same in khtml's DCOP interface?
Please test the attached patch.

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David FAURE, faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2.1 is available - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/
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