On 03/08/2011 02:50 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 03/08/2011 04:53 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
Am 08.03.2011 um 10:38 schrieb Marco Möller:
Hi,
does someone know, if there are plans to improve the printer dialog?
I don't know of any plan.
Actually, there's a plan to remove it altogether, because....
I have multiple printers and currently I mostly have to export the pdf
first and print from acroread/ocular to enable/disable
duplex/multiside printing /...
You can use view-pdf and print from it.
this is what everyone does.
You know what wouuld be very nice? A comand line option to okular so
that it show its printer dialog on a given file...
In the good old time we had a cups-gui or something but it doesn't exist
anymore it seems. There is 'cupsdoprint' though...
Abdel.
CUPSDOPRINT(1) printing tool
CUPSDOPRINT(1)
NAME
cupsdoprint - KDE command line tool to print files via CUPS
SYNOPSIS
cupsdoprint [-H host[:port]] [-P dest] [-J name] [-o
opt=value[,...]]
[-U login[:password]] files...
DESCRIPTION
cupsdoprint is a command line tool to print files using the CUPS
printing system.
cupsdoprint does not support printing from stdin.
You can use lpoptions -l -p Printername to discover the options
a certain printer supports.
OPTIONS
-? show help options
-H host:port
cups host to print to
-J name
print job name
default: "KDE Print System"
-o opt=value
options to use
-P dest
printer to use
-U login:password
login and password to use
EXAMPLE
cupsdoprint -P HPLaserJet4L -H localhost:631 -U john
-o Copies=10,PageSize=A4 /tmp/file.ps
Prints 10 copies in format A4 of the file /tmp/file.ps as user
john via localhost:631 on the printer HPLaserJet4L.
SEE ALSO
www.linuxprinting.org Information about printing under UNIX
lp(1), lpr(1), lpoptions(1)
AUTHORS
Michael Goffioul <kdepr...@swing.be>
Please use http://bugs.kde.org to report bugs, do not mail the
author directly.
This manual page was written by Holger Hartmann
<holger_hartm...@gmx.de> for the Debian Project (but may be used
by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or
modify this document under the terms of the GNU Gen‐
eral Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by
the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in /usr/share/com‐
mon-licenses/GPL.
K Desktop Environment Jun 2006
CUPSDOPRINT(1)
