Bug#379378: "poster" commandline utility and KDEPrint/kprinter's GUI frontend
2 days ago I blogged about kprinters GUI support for "poster":
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3051
My openSUSE-10.2 system has the 2002 version installed, and for me it
always worked fine, with no problem whatsoever. I even never thought that
there were newer versions around....
So at the time I wrote the blog, I was unaware of any post-2002 additio-
nal patches to poster. I only recalled the original ones Michael Goffioul
did in 2002 (and which were accepted by the upstream poster author as
well).
In 2005 and 2006 more modifications were made, and it looks like these
led to some (rather unspecified) problems.
But I've not seen *any* step by step description how to reproduce the
problem, nor an example PostScript file that can trigger it.
In any case, for Debian to ship a 1999 version seems a bit odd (given
the fact that the upstream author already agreed to ship the 2002 one).
If Debian could decide to at least go for the 2002 version again, they'd
do a big favor to all KDE users because they could use kprinter with
poster again.
As it stands now, all Debian KDE users who happen to install poster will
get a very ugly error message once they open the Poster tab in kprinter.
Peter,
I wonder if you can recall any details that led you to the statement "it
was very buggy" when you said
I had updated the poster package to use the KDE version for
some time, but it was very buggy
Maybe you have some archive or access to more detailed user complaints
that led you to that conclusion?
I hope I can help find someone who works on this code again for a little
while to remove the bugs anyone found, so a "definite" re-release of
poster could be made some time in future, which will make all distros
and all users happy.
But more specific bug reports would definitely help tremendously in
that.
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Kurt Pfeifle
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