Re: [kde] kdeprint in kde 4

On Thursday 05 March 2009 04:22:10 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Rick Miles wrote:
<SNIP>

You might note a previous post of mine today where I could not print a
pdf with okular as it asks me what filter to use and then won't do
anything with any of those offered for selection.

That is very strange. I have KDE-4.2.1 from source and all I can say is
that it works OK for me. However, if you have >= 4.2.0, I would report
it as a bug.

Check my previous reply to you, I'm not quite sure if we are comparing apples to
apples, perhaps my qt isn't up to yours.
I'm only interested in a pdf reader which IMHO kpdf did a better job of
for me than acroread, Dunno about the "more features" I just want three:
view, preview and print. Small and simple is nice.

I see your point and with people using Dolphin, we do need an app that
is basically just a frame for the KParts. I would suggest that if you
just need the basic functions that you use the Okular part in Konqueror
rather than opening the app.
Anything will do for a reader I suppose but yesterday I was revising a flyer,
checking to see if the edits were in the revised pdf and then checking the print
preview before printing. Kpdf seemed to produce a better facsimili of a pdf both
as a reader then as a print preview so I can live without it but I have not
figured out why it is asking me what filter to use. It don't know and neither do
I.
I really could care less whether I use kooka or not if the replacement,
scanlite, has some documentation so maybe I can figure out how to get it
to see my networked scanner which xsane has no problem doing and it to
uses the sane backend.

Won't help you now, but if it doesn't find your networked scanner,
report the bug.
I'm not sure it is a bug maybe a limitation (no Fud intended Anne) but I have
found the problem.

Scanlite is a frontend for sane and the utiltiy sane-find-scanner does not see my
scanner although I can use the sane cli command "scanimage -L", i.e. list, to
identify my scanner:

rick@rick:~$ scanimage -L
device `net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is a
Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one

I'd quess that skanlite parses the ouput of sane-find-scanner to create a list of
scanner device(s) and so it will not open for me because sane-find-scanner does
not list my networked scanner.

However, I can open skanlite and scan if I run this command in konsole:

skanlite -d net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is a
Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one

Thats fine and dandy but it Thats cli and one of those unmemorable commands so if
I want to take the easy way out its a matter of editing the skanlite in kmenuedit
so that the command entry looks like this:

scanlite %u -d net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ

and if I want an icon that works I will need to edit
/usr/share/applications/kde-4/scanlite.desktop so it looks like this.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=skanlite -caption "%c" %i -d
net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ
Icon=skanlite
X-DocPath=skanlite/index.html
Terminal=false
Name=Skanlite
<snip>

Note that <snip> was mine and the file is much longer due to internationalisation.
Also there is no icon for scanlite so I'll have to use some other image and
provide a path after "Icon=" maybe I'll use the old kpdf icon just for the heck of
it :^)








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Cheers,

Rick Miles

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