Munich Sprint

[John Layt]

On 18 April 2016 at 16:14, Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de> wrote:

> * something about a printing tool kde 3 had we lost

That would be kprinter. Credative / Limux had a replacement for KDE4
called kprinter4 (part of which is a poorly-attributed fork of some
code I wrote for Okular):

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KPrinter4?content=163537
https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kprinter4.git

It's in playground, been meaning to have a poke at it to see if it's
still of any use. AFAIK though it only works on postscript files and
relies on very old tools like poster, but it shouldn't take much to
generalise it for all file types supported by CUPS, and to update to
more modern PDF-based tools. Add in a Dolphin service for a context
menu print option and it's done. Perhaps a small porting project for
someone to bring it into Plasma5?

John.