From kde-devel  Sat Apr 21 11:12:25 2001
From: Lars Knoll <lars () trolltech ! com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:12:25 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: printing
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=98785154521594

On Friday 20 April 2001 21:26, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> Hi!
> Now we have an excellent kprinter :-))
>
> Next what we need is an excellent html and pdf printer driver.

Yes. They definetively need some work. Problem was up to now, that nobody 
really cared about them. I did some work on the khtml driver, but never got 
to really finish it. I picked up some of the issues lately however.

> Just want to summarize the many bugs and wishes concerning this topic:
> * option to suppress printing  of background colors and images (save ink,
> make output readable) (works in netscape)

Should be simple using a style sheet for printing. I'll hopefull yhave it 
imlpemented for 2.2

> * header/footer with URI, Page number and Date

Not a big problem neither.

> * fit output to physical page layout
> ** width (currently characters are cut off - html)

This should work. Could you tell me a case where characters are cut of when 
printing?

> ** length (lines are cut off , printed twice - html)

This is a problem, and unfortunately not an easy one to solve. That's why we 
repeat some amount of text at the moment. It'll need some restructuring in 
the drawing/layouting engine of khtml. So this will probably be the request 
that has to wait longest...

Regards,
Lars

> ** orientation (pdf) landscape document on portrait paper/screen
 
>> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<