[NTLUG:Discuss] Exporting KDE printers

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Running CentOS 4.4 with KDE 3.3.  In Control 
> Center->Peripherals->Printers I have five "printers" {Advanced Faxing 
> Tool, Mail PDF File, Print to File (PDF), Print to File (Postscript) and 
> Send to Fax}which I can't seem to assign to a print queue so that I can 
> use them.  They show up as printers in KDE programs such as Kedit and 
> KPDF but not in other programs such as the GIMP or any of the 
> non-KDE-PDF viewers.  Is there a way to make these "printers" available 
> to non-KDE programs?  Thanks for any help.

If the program allows you to configure a program to invoke... tell it
to invoke kprinter (e.g. instead of lp or lpr).

For example, in gimp, setup a New Printer.. I give it the name kprinter,
and then do a Setup Printer (all of this from the Print dialog)... and
then for the Command (which will probably show lpr ..blah..blah..) just
enter kprinter instead.

Then select kprinter and that will pull up the kprinter dialog when
printing which allows all of the neato KDE features (print to PDF, FAX,
etc).

Same thing can be done for firefox (about:config), etc.