From koffice  Wed Feb 26 13:31:55 2003
From: Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:31:55 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Page sizes not consistent with ghostscript
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=104626657623486

There are two different paper sizes:
- the document one
- the printer (system) one.

Historically under Unix, the printer paper size is not known (as you have 
written, it is not the case of CUPS.)

But we currently have a problem with the document page size, as QT cannot 
support a custom page size. Trolltech has now answered that this problem will 
be fixed in QT 3.2. Only then we could fix the next version of KDE to have a 
KPrinter supporting custom pages too. Finally when this is done, we will be 
able to fix the next KOffice (probably 1.4, probably out in late Summer 
2004.)

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 13:35, Mr E_T wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > Would it not be better to have kdeprint updated so that kword can set
> > > the paper size using either custom or an existing preset size??
> >
> > The problem is QPrinter. However, you just remind me that if we do not
> > bug Trolltech, QT will never be changed.
>
> Cups requires that the Custom paper size be written as
> Custom.WidthxLength[type]
> ie a 4x6 inch card would be
>    Custom.4.0x6.0in        inches
> or Custom.101.6x152.4mm    millimetres
> or Custom.10.16x15.24cm    centimeters
> or Custom.288x432pt        points
>
> If the printer class does not receive these measurements then it cant pass
> them on.
>
> Lprng and the others leav ghostscript to discover the pagesize from the
> output and under kdeprint you dont get a choice of paper sizes for these.
>
> This would seem to be the core of the whole problem!

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