Bug 148763

Summary:	support for signature size in Pamphlet Filters
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeprint	Reporter:	Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
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Description Vito De Tullio 2007-08-12 07:41:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

The pamplet filters, at the moment, aren't configurable to let psbook rearrange pages using a signature.
This is useful when you try to print 25+ pages on a pamplet, because the "-s" option let you "split" the document in various pamplet.
Now you risk to have a huge "blob" of pages, in witch the internal ones "leak" from the pamplet itself

Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-08-23 20:15:36 UTC

Vito,

since you seem to know a bit or two about psbook and its '-s' option -- why don't you try to implement it yourself?

It is not too complicated -- you don't need to code in C++ or Qt, or touch any of the KDEPrint libs.

The framework is already there: it uses relatively simple XML files to describe a sort of "driver settings" dialog for some of the filters. See f.e. these files

   /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml
   /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop

which control the 'Enscript Text Filter'.

To add options to the pamphlet generating filter, you just need to click on the small 'Edit Command' button, then (on the next dialog) the larger 'Edit Command...' button while you have the filter selection mini-dialog open and the  filter selected....  

From there, it's all a GUI, and you may be able to figure it out on your own (there is no documentation for it, though....). Just look at the other KDEPrint prefilters, and compare.

Comment 2 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:35:16 UTC

KDEPrint is obsolete, unmaintained and will never be revived.  Closing all open bugs.

Comment 3 Vito De Tullio 2011-05-27 18:40:41 UTC

is there some replacement for KDEprint? AFAIK the kde4.x printing area needs love