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hippysurfer

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Monday, October 13th 2003, 9:15am

printing from konqueror with dcop

Hi,

Is there a way to get konqueror to print a page from the command line using dcop or some other approach?

I have been through the interfaces listed by kdcop but I can't see an interface for printing.

Many thanks

Richard

Nicolas Goutte

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Monday, October 13th 2003, 2:47pm

I suppose that you want to simply print from the console

In this case, you could use kprinter:
kprinter yourfile.ps

KPrinter shows a dialog, so it might not be what you want. If it is the case, use the standard printer command: lpr
lpr yourfile.ps

(Both work not only with PostScript files.)

Have a nice day!

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Monday, October 13th 2003, 6:59pm

kprinter does not render html before printing

Thanks for the pointer to kprinter.

kprinter will print postscript/pdf and text documents but it does not render html documents before converting to postscript for printing.

I guess maybe I should say that I want to get khtml to render an html page and then print it, but I want to script it.

I need to script it because I have nearly 100 html pages that I want to print. Thanks why I was hoping to use dcop to drive khtml/konqueror.

Richard

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Tuesday, October 14th 2003, 8:55am

I'm not sure about DCOP but htmldoc does a pretty good job of rendering HTML to either PDF or postscript, see...

http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc

HTH

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Friday, October 17th 2003, 8:11am

htmldoc is just the ticket

Thanks for the pointer to htmldoc. It is just what I needed. It does a great job of producing good looking pdf/ps from html webpages. Spot on.

Thanks to Easy Software Products for releasing it under the GPL.

Richard