Print Dialog and Toolkit
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In Brief
A script for interactive printing with a set of pseudo-printers (djvu, pdf, ps).
Vitals
- Product Categories:
- SUSE Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise
- Functional Categories:
- Printing
| Updated: | 27 Aug 2007 |
| File Size: | 3KB |
| License: | GPL |
| Download: | /coolsolutions/tools/downloads/printkit.zip |
| Publisher: | Oleg Motygin |
Disclaimer
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Details
This is an interactive printing toolkit with a set of pseudo-printers. In particular, it can be considered as a simple replacement for kprinter in xfce or gnome. Interaction with user is based on gtk dialogs by Zenity tools.
When printing through printkit it is possible: to print to a printer via gtklp (or some other interface: lp, kprinter; see $printspooler in the script), or to save output as a djvu, pdf or ps file. When choosing an existing file for saving, it is possible to append to the file.
Installation and usage: put the script printkit somewhere in the path (e.g. in ~/usr/local/bin). Use printkit as a command for printing in X applications.
Used packages: zenity; netpbm (>=10.21), psutils, and djvulibre for conversion to djvu; pdftk for conversion to pdf.
See also the variable $cleanuptype3fonts in the script. If it is set to "yes", then the pdf pseudo-printer also tries to get rid of type3 raster fonts that may make the output pdf file to look better. This function needs perl installed.
Tested under Suse Linux 10.0.
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