From kde-core-devel Fri Sep 14 20:45:04 2007 From: Kurt Pfeifle Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:45:04 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting Message-Id: <46EAF2D0.9000504 () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118980291530695 Jakob Petsovits wrote: > On Friday, 14. September 2007, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: >> Jakob Petsovits wrote: >>> No way I can have a look at >>> the "real" printout before I send it to the printer. >>> (This in addition to the crappy page order in the "4 on 1" mode that CUPS >>> applies, which is not configurable afaics. Or ghostscript? Don't know.) >> CUPS supports and applies these page orders: >> >> -o number-up-layout=btlr; # Bottom to top, left to right >> -o number-up-layout=btrl; # Bottom to top, right to left >> -o number-up-layout=lrbt; # Left to right, bottom to top >> -o number-up-layout=lrtb; # Left to right, top to bottom (default) >> -o number-up-layout=rlbt; # Right to left, bottom to top >> -o number-up-layout=rltb; # Right to left, top to bottom >> -o number-up-layout=tblr; # Top to bottom, left to right >> -o number-up-layout=tbrl; # Top to bottom, right to left >> >> Not crappy at all, if you ask me. Total control, whatever reasonable >> order you may want. > > Oh, wow. Had I known that, the usefulness of kprinter would have multiplied > for printing the lecture slides that I got from university. Be prepared to loose this (and many other features that are *now* in KDEPrint) in KDE4, at least temporarily, maybe permanently. Or step up as one volunteer for a new developer team to be formed who takes responsibility for at least a part of KDE4Print. > On the other hand, it's not that straightforward to find out that it's even > possible to apply such options, assuming that you know they exist at all. > >>> Er... nevermind. >> Why? If we don't mind we'll not get an improvement in the future. > > Hehe :D > Well, I certainly hope there'll be a nice GUI for this sometime in the future. There's one already now. Try "gtklp". -- Kurt Pfeifle System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS Infotec Deutschland GmbH ..................... Hedelfinger Strasse 58 A RICOH Company ........................... D-70327 Stuttgart/Germany