[Gambas-user] printer.setup

[Benoit Minisini]

On Monday 29 May 2006 20:13, javier romero wrote:
>  I have 3 printers,
> 1) epson stylus color 480,
> 2) epson C-45
> 3) Cannon BJC-4300
> all attach via Samba and use CUPS, when i use Printer.Setup and press ok
> button, i think the printer.resolution have the "printer resolution" of the
> selected printer but its not correct, the 3 printers haves diferent
> resolutions, but when i print the printer.resolution value for each , the
> values are the same, 600 dpi, in my case this is the resolution of the
> defaul printer, the epson 480. Seems the printer.setup dont change the
> value of the printer.resolution when is selected another printer.
>
>  Thank
>  Javier
>

According to the Qt doc, the resolution is what the user wants, and not what 
the printer provides.

As Qt does not CUPS at all, the Printer.Setup dialog is not aware of the 
printers connected to the system, and so is almost useless. 

The only useful thing at the moment is printing to a postcript file, and send 
the file to the kprinter program (if you have KDE). For Gnome users, maybe 
there is an equivalent program that does the same thing, I don't know. Maybe 
someone has the answer?

In the future, QT may use CUPS, and if it won't, I may make a CUPS component. 
A lof of conditionals, isn't it? :-)

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini