On 05/05/2011 10:51 PM, Duncan wrote: > Dale posted on Thu, 05 May 2011 21:11:07 -0500 as excerpted: > > I was just going to suggest printing to pdf. You can then open that in > okular or whatever and see what it looks like (effectively a print > preview), before printing /that/ to the actual printer. > Since there is still not preview for printing with KDE, I normally printed to a PS file and then printed the PS file. But, now, I find that CUPS will not print the PS file.
$ lpr 0235668-1.ps lpr: Unsupported format 'application/postscript'! Yes, CUPS will not print a PostScript file. > Depending on the purpose of the printing, it's also sometimes possible to > save as plain text and print from a text editor, perhaps with the > supplemental images if any, saved, then printed from an image program. If > it's just documentation, text and perhaps a few diagrams, that often works > just fine (and even better if you can print in draft mode using the > printer's often quite good and ink-economic native fonts). <SNIP> > Meanwhile, there were certainly print issues with early kde4. Some of > them were supposed to have been fixed in later qt, first, but AFAIK, > qt-4.7 should have most of those fixes. I am currently using Qt-4.7.1. > Back along about 4.3 and 4.4, > they were forecasting that the print situation should finally be working > itself out by 4.6 and 4.7, but I've not kept up with where they actually > are now that we're /at/ 4.6, as I had to cut the kde planet feed I was > reading back then, along with several others, due to the time it was > taking. That, and the fact that I /don't/ have a printer ATM means I've > really had no exposure to it directly, and this is the first thread on it > I've seen in awhile, so I really don't know what the current situation and > short term thru 4.7 future status is likely to be. Perhaps someone more > currently informed will post and I'll then know too. Meanwhile, I guess > this does mean there's at minimum, still some thorns with the roses. > You can always try printing to a PS file. I guess that KDE can no longer display them but GV still exists and works fine. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
