From kde-core-devel  Fri Sep 14 11:11:41 2007
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:11:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Future of KPrinter
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On Friday 14 September 2007 10:11:15 Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Joseph Wenninger schrieb:
> > On Thursday 13 September 2007 22:40, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> How do you do that in a cross-platform manner?
> >
> > To my knowledge ghostscript and the psutils run on all platforms we
> > support and at least on windows ghostscript can talk to winprint, I gue=
ss
> > on macosx it's the same. So one solution would be
> > App->PS->psutils->ghostscript (okay cups) ->native printer (similiar how
> > kprint does it on my linux box)
> > On the other hand it doesn't make sens to me to limit all platforms
> > because some don't support all features. Is HAL available on windows ?
>
> no

I guess it's also easy to support a "non-optimal" path of:

1) print to PostScript
2) run filters
3) use ghostscript to print again -- will convert to the printer's supporte=
d=20
format

In any platform.

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