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Em Monday 22 October 2007 12:20:00 Kurt Pfeifle escreveu:
> Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > kprinter -- as a command-line tool that prints PostScript input and sho=
ws
> > a print dialog
>
> You don't seem to know kprinter too well. Yes, kprinter shows the print
> dialog. But no, it isn't confined to PostScript input...
>
> > should be replaced with a full-fledged PostScript reader.
>
> ...and therefore, above recommonendation isn't quite spot on.
>
> kprinter can send *any* file to the print sub-system. If that is CUPS,
> sending PDF, any image format (like GIF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, PPM, PNM, Sun
> Raster,...) is useful, because CUPS can auto-convert it to whatever the
> target printer needs.

Ok, rephrasing:

it should be replaced with a full-fledged document viewer, like Okular. Can=
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Okular read GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc. ?

In any case, CUPS isn't the only backend we support. Therefore, we cannot r=
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on CUPS features, like accepting those formats. We need an application that=
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understands the file format and converts to the printing system's printing=
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language (no, that does not mean PostScript -- the application may have to=
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read PostScript and output something else).

> > In any case, it's not a runtime issue: KDE applications shouldn't be
> > calling kprinter, they should use the C++ classes. Are there any cases =
of
> > KDE applications using this? (These are, by definition, non-GUI
> > applications and KDE isn't in the business of writing them!)
>
> There are cases were *non*-KDE apps, running inside a KDE environment,
> use kprinter as the print dialog (Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, Thunder-
> bird, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Acrobat Reader....).

That is not a KDE3-vs-KDE4 co-installability issue. You can still use KDE 3=
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kprinter, since KDE 4 isn't overwriting it.

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