From kde-core-devel Thu Sep 13 20:34:00 2007 From: Joseph Wenninger Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:34:00 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Future of KPrinter Message-Id: <200709132234.00894.jowenn () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118971568310134 On Tuesday 11 September 2007 13:18, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2007 21:29:08 Alex Merry wrote: [...] > > * Pre-print filtering - would require extending QPrinter and > > implementing our own backends (which might use a Qt builtin backend) > > This is for things like the filter tab in the KDE3 print dialog, right? > I'm not so sure we should still have that, at least in the normal print > dialog; all those options are only useful if we print to postscript. And > we can't assume that anymore. > For example, on Windows the output format is defined by the > printer-driver. And even on Unix/Mac the output format can be PDF. > So this feature really should be re-thought. If the filters are about to disappear, will the QPrinter class be able to handle booklet/pamphlet printing internally ? It would be a shame if that would not be possible any more in the normal printing workflow [...] Kind regards Joseph Wenninger -- Been there, done that KATE developer - Joseph Wenninger