Do we need cups for qt/embedded?

[flowerslab]

Hi all,

I have been developing an application in qt for embedded arm. I have a small doubt. Do we need cups for printing? Does QPrinter can print directly to printer? Though I have been cross-compiling cups, for my device.

Regards
Sathishkumar

[goetz]

"QPrinter":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qprinter.html uses the printer drivers built-in your operating system. This is CUPS on X11/Mac. So, yes you should add CUPS to your system.

BTW: It's spelled CUPS (all capital letters) - cups are those small containers we drink our coffee of :-)

[vcsala]

[quote author="Volker" date="1292936499"]cups are those small containers we drink our coffee of :-) [/quote]

Thanks Volker, it was really useful... :D Maybe we can start a wiki article on how to spell important definitions/abbreviations/names (it would be more elegant to write "Please read this wiki article" than write "Please remember it is Qt and not QT (Quicktime)")

[EDIT] sorry for my off-topic remark

[kamalakshantv]

[quote author="Volker" date="1292936499"]

BTW: It's spelled CUPS (all capital letters) - cups are those small containers we drink our coffee of :-) [/quote]

Even I wondered what cups the post was referring to. Thought you were referring to something like "this":http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/troubalex/Qx9zSl7V8KcGomCP0Y116SNFl6rZX7bWDfEHlR2uOodzzWjUfOu48QcVDHBh/mug.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg

[giesbert]

Hey, where can one get these cups? :-)

[troubalex]

Gerolf, they might go into the mail to some people in case I ever figure out how to securely ship them. Otherwise, meet me at an event. ;)

[kamalakshantv]

I have even seen photos of Qt Ducks (like that of Symbian Foundation).

[giesbert]

Next dev days? :-)

You could take a bigger cardbox, put some old newspaper around it (so people enjoy reading old news paper, don't they?) and it should work, I hope :-)

I would put myself as volunteer for a test :-)))

[vcsala]

I also volunteer :) Maybe you can create do-it-yourself version in IKEA style (for better shipping) :)

[kamalakshantv]

Or come up with something that is not so fragile.

[giesbert]

for packaging? or for sending?
For packaging, we could also use a box made of wood, but it will get heavier and thus more expensive to send :-))

[kamalakshantv]

[quote author="Gerolf" date="1292943206"]for packaging? or for sending?
For packaging, we could also use a box made of wood, but it will get heavier and thus more expensive to send :-))[/quote]

For sending. Like Forum Nokia used to send USB Pen Drives, Card readers, T-Shirts, note books, pen, key chains and other such things which can be sent easily without worrying about shipping them safely.

[Immii]

[quote author="Volker" date="1292936499"]"QPrinter":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qprinter.html uses the printer drivers built-in your operating system. This is CUPS on X11/Mac. So, yes you should add CUPS to your system.

BTW: It's spelled CUPS (all capital letters) - cups are those small containers we drink our coffee of :-) [/quote]

I think he is right, when you specify whether you need this while configure you dont do it in capital letters rather we do it like ./configure -no-cups

[flowerslab]

QPrinter [doc.qt.nokia.com] uses the printer drivers built-in your operating system.

-- is this implies, we no need CUPS at all, for printing a image with Qt. If this is case, I can just have the platform support packages, busybox, and Qt. Here, I have just about to complete my project with Qt and qwt. I have to print the graph in apps.

thanks
Sathishkumar

[goetz]

You need at least one kind of printing system in your environment, may it be CUPS or lpr on a Unix/Linux box. These are the drivers as seen by Qt.

[DenisKormalev]

Sathishkumar, QPrinter is not included into Symbian, WinCE, Simulator builds. There are tickets for it, but not sure about time when it will be fixed.

[flowerslab]

Thanks all. Good to know QPrinter uses lpr which can get via Busybox.