[NTLUG:Discuss] Exporting KDE printers

[Leroy Tennison]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 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.
>
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Thank you, that's slick.