From kde-devel  Sat Apr 21 12:09:22 2001
From: Richard Bos <allabos () freeler ! nl>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:09:22 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: printing
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Where can I find a description, explaining how to select network printers via 
kprinter?  Here at home I can only select the standard printer streams 
(filters), however at the office there are several hunderd printers.  Is 
there a utility that allows me to select one (or several) of these printers 
(the ones I normally use), and let only those appear in kprinter?

If not it would mean that I still can't print at the office I think :(

At the moment I use a commandline tool called prt, which can address the 
network printers.  It also allows to specify whether I wanna have 2, 4, 9, etc
pages at 1 page, whether the printout should be single or double sided, etc.  
as far as I can see, I don't see these options in kprinter.  Would it be 
possible to create a command bar were one can specify his/her printer command 
for situations that kprinter does not support?
Though, this has been discussed before and I've been told to configure 
/etc/printcap with the right filter, I still wunder how I would be able 
to select the right printer at the network, or how to select the number of 
pages that I want 1 page, etc, even when I've configured /etc/configured as 
it should.

Non the less, kprinter is already a great improvement and I look forward to 
the improvements Lars is going to make.  It will make kprinter again better.


-- 
Richard Bos
For those who have no (/)home the journey is endless

On Saturday 21 April 2001 15:11, Lars Knoll wrote:
> 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
> >
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