Summary: | Wish: Add 'Save As PDF' to File menu of all KDE applications | ||
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Product: | [Unmaintained] kdeprint | Reporter: | Dik Takken <kde> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Michael Goffioul <kdeprint_bugs> |
Status: | CLOSED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | jlayt |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | unspecified | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Dik Takken
2004-03-15 00:48:12 UTC
This is not something that can be solved at kdeprint's level. The application developer is responsible for it's menu content (fortunately :-). KDEPrint provides an easy framework to add "quick-print" and "export" buttons/menu-items, but it's up to the application developer to make use of them. See for example this example: http://printing.kde.org/developer/tutorial/action.php But am I correct when I say that KDEPrint does not export a 'save as PDF' function that applications can add to their list of export formats? You must understand that the idea of my wish is to hide the fact that 'Save As PDF' has anything to do with printing from the user. If it is currently possible (and easy) for application developers to add a 'Save As PDF' option to their standard 'save file' dialog, I will need to submit this wish to individual applications. If it is not possible, or hard to accomplish, shall I submit a new, more specific wish for KDEPrint? The basic problem is that you're asking to make KDEPrint controls a KDE application, which is not possible. It's the application responsability to generate the print content and to decide when to do it. KDEPrint has no control on that, it only provides the tools to do it. What the application has to do is to create a button or menu-item, and provide the appropriate code to react on it. KDEPrint provides some tools to make it easy, but it cannot generate print data in place of the application itself. Closing old Resolved status bug. |