Re: [kde-linux] KWrite/printer problem

Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 08 October 2009 10:27:23 david wrote:
Bruce Miller wrote:
Conclusions: 1. The lateness of the hour here in eastern Canada (and
the length of my day) did not allow me to test Konqueror in a plain
vanilla form, that is, without changing any of its default margins.
However, after a change to the margins, documents printed without
text being lost at the page breaks. This was the problem that has
driven me crazy for the last two years and which led another user to
start this thread. 2. The problem rendering the table (point 7 above)
suggests that the KDE print engine still needs considerable work. 3.
The lack of a function for printing only a part of, rather than an
entire, document is an important hole in KDE's overall functionality
4. It is my personal judgement --- others will obviously have
different perspectives --- that the persistent problems with printing
in KDE4 are the most important outstanding regression in end-user
usefulness from KDE3.5 to KDE4. kprinter used to be a gem of KDE. I
have read that it was becoming beastly to maintain, but it remains a
shame to have lost it. I need to put on an asbestos suit to say this,
but in my view, the best currently available printer control software
that I know of is FinePrint and it is (gasp!) commercial software for
Windows.
I remember FinePrint. It has a long pedigree in the world of printer
software!

I use TurboPrint - also commercial software, but available for both
Linux and Windows (I think) - for my Canon inkjet because it does a far
better job printing photos than the non-commercial Linux drivers do.

This has been said so often, for years. Is it really still a problem,
printing from Canon inkjets?

I haven't looked back. The problem wasn't unique to Canon inkjets back
then, either. TurboPrint uses its target printers' full capabilities
because the developer spends the money to get the full support/specs
from the hardware vendors. I like being able to print photos at 4800dpi
on glossy photo paper, with proper color matching, adjustments of ink
volume for the paper type, and such. Last time I tried Linux' idea of
printer drivers for my inkjet, the printed quality was visibly much
worse than TurboPrint's output.

Sometimes you just have to go for a commercial solution. I bought VuScan,
because I got much better results when scanning with my Canon File Scanner
than xsane could give me. I use FOSS when I can, but am pragmatic when it's
simply not feasible.

I'll be adding VuScan to my collection when I add a negative scanner.

Conclusion: Bruce's mail software doesn't send paragraphs wrapped
properly. ;-)

Really? It looks fine here.

After I told Icedove here to wrap the lines - it wrapped his entire post
(originally just 4 long single paragraphs, each a single line) into a
single block of text. His mail software has characteristics of MS Outlook.

There's reasons why the email convention is to have blank lines between
paragraphs. ;-)

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David
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