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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice issues [Re: Question about your KPresenter's review]
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-03-08 11:38:56
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On Friday 08 March 2002 13:07, David Faure wrote:
|   On Friday 08 March 2002 06:44, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
|   > Konqueror can be significantly improved (i.e. enabled to generate PDFs)
|   > by using it with KDEGraphics.  But the ordinary non-technical user
|   > won't know that--and will likely assume that the KOffice suite can't
|   > generate PDFs.
|
|   Yeah, so kdegraphics should be part of kdebase (konqueror), and it should
| be part of koffice as well. Technical user or not, tell me how that's
| doable?

well, I guess we still have an option to take KGhostView from kdegraphics and 
put it into kdelibs or kdebase.
I definitly miss "Print Preview" option in Konqueror's menu, and adding "Send 
page as PDF" to Konqueror's File menu can be also very helpfull.
BTW: this can be a very nice differentiator for Konqueror from Opera and 
Mozilla browsers.
All functionality is "already in", so you need just to add menu entry...

|
|   Your comment about koffice not generating PDFs is wrong, it can generate
| PDFs even without kdegraphics installed! The only difference is that it
| will not have the nice "preview" dialog that embeds the kghostview PS
| viewer, it will have to launch a separate application (e.g. gv) for print
| preview. Nothing to do with PDF.

To add:
  Konqueror can print to PDF (generate PDF) without kdegraphics package 
installed.
But I can agree with Cathy: most users expect that if you were able to print 
to PDF, you should be able to see what exactly you printed.
And 'gv' is too much confusing/ugly for KDE newcomers, we should better use 
KGhostView.
 
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