On Thursday 10 October 2002 1:03 pm, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:26:42PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Dekel> The KDE tool is kprinter. > > Dekel> > > http://printing.kde.org/screenshots/pics/printdialog.png It > > is Dekel> more powerful than our dialog (for example, it > > allow selecting Dekel> the printer from a listbox). We can > > use it just as we currently Dekel> use an external program > > for fax sending, namely no need to add Dekel> new code. > > Similar printing tools are qtcups, gtkcups, and xpp. > > > > >> Are these tool able to print transparently from a dvi > > >> file? > > > > Dekel> They work on the Postscript file. > > > > So we are not very advanced on our problem, are we? > > Why does it matter ?
It seems a little excessive to generate a 1000 page PostScript document to print off only the first page... Apart from that, it doesn't matter at all. In fact, it'd be quite interesting to see if you could create the machinery to use either an internal dialog or an external program. Angus
