From kde-core-devel  Fri Sep 14 11:46:13 2007
From: Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:46:13 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Future of KPrinter
Message-Id: <46EA7485.3010004 () gmx ! net>
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Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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 guess
>>> 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 supported 
> format
> 
> In any platform.

You may want to read up on a previous hint from me. It deals with
the "mswinpr2" provided by Ghostscript (on Win32 platforms) and
how it could be used to print to nearly all printers that may be
installed by the user:

   http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118912427520885&w=2


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