Bug 132271

Summary:	graphical preview for printjobs in kcmprintmanager / kjobviewer
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Thomas Bettler <thomas.bettler>
Component:	kcmprintmgr	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Thomas Bettler 2006-08-11 21:10:33 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.4, Gentoo)
Compiler:          Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.17-gentoo-r4

I'd like to click a print job in the list and get a preview in kghostview (or okular). This would be especially helpful to distinct multiple similar jobs.

I guess it should be feasible, since the job itself is in ps format.

Comment 1 Michael Goffioul 2006-08-16 10:22:45 UTC

(Mainly intented for Cristian)
This is not the first time such a feature is requested, unfortunately this is somehow difficult to implement if the CUPS server does not support job file retrieval (which it doesn't, if I'm right). Otherwise, you'll face several problems:
- you can't rely on the fact that the job file is available locally as the CUPS server might run on another computer, or if browsing is enabled
- even if the file is local, the actual location is configuration-dependent (you may think about looking in the cupsd.conf to know where to get the file)
- the spool directory might be user-readable

Michael.

Comment 2 Cristian Tibirna 2006-08-16 13:58:11 UTC

Michael

Thanks for your help. I noticed at first posting that this report was a duplicate but didn't yet find the few moments to dig after the other similar wish and aggregate these.

I know about all the difficulties. I think I will have to go through the latest cups documentation to see if something new became available with respect to this, then contact the developers to see what would be possible.

Thanks.

Comment 3 Thomas Bettler 2006-08-26 22:29:10 UTC

Seems as someone already requested this feature at cups.org
http://cups.org/str.php?L118+P0+S-2+C0+I10+E0+Qjob

Let's explain them that we would benefit of this feature...

Comment 4 Thomas Bettler 2006-08-26 22:58:49 UTC

Yes, you are right. Is an old request see (KDE Bug #32335).
Mark one of them as dup...

Comment 5 Cristian Tibirna 2006-08-27 01:07:21 UTC

Thanks, Thomas, for taking the time to find the duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32335 ***