======Common Printing Dialog: Test it!======

The code for the Common Printing dialog is currently hosted at OpenPrinting. It should later get part of the major desktops.

Browse the code for the dialog's UI in our [[http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/devel/common-printing-dialog/files|Bazaar repository]].

Download it with


bzr branch http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/devel/common-printing-dialog

To compile and run, do (you need the development packages (*-dev or *-devel) for KDE 4.0: Qt, QtDBus, kdelibs, cups, and poppler-qt4. It uses QWidgets on QGraphicsView, so it needs Qt >= 4.4.0):
<code>
rm -rf build
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
cd ../kde4-dialog</code>

On Ubuntu Hardy use the following "cmake" command:
<code>
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/lib/kde4 ..</code>

To run the dialog, use the following command:
<code>
../build/kde4-dialog/kde4-cpd &</code>

If you now run a client program (like qt-client), a dialog will appear.  If you just want to view the dialog (i.e. when demonstrating it to someone), use this:
<code>
../build/kde4-dialog/view-dialog --previewfile <PDF file> &</code>

<PDF file> will be used for the preview.

There is also a GTK-based version of the dialog. To build it, edit the reference to a PDF file in printdialog.c to an existing PPD file and do
<code>
cd gtk-dialog
make
./glib-dialog -f <PDF file> [-p <PPD file>]</code>

You need to libcups2-dev, libpoppler-glib-dev, libpoppler-dev, and the *-dev files for GTK apps being installed.

Browse the code for the interface between the applications and the printing dialog (CPDAPI) here

[[http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/devel/cpdapi/files|http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/devel/cpdapi/files]]

and download it via


bzr branch http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/devel/cpdapi

To test the code, run the following commands (the packages "cmake" and "libqt4-dev" must be installed, qmake must point to the Qt4 version, remove the package "qt3-dev-tools" or do "update-alternatives --config qmake"):
<code>
rm -rf build
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
qt-dialog/qt-dialog &
qt-client/qt-client
qt-dialog/qt-dialog &
../simple-client.py</code>