QTCUPS - CUPS front-end and library for Qt

QtCups is part of the "CUPS related stuffs" project on SourceForge.

2000-08-09: QTCUPS-0.2 has been released, see download section (latest changes).

QTCUPS provides Qt applications with support for CUPS (Common Unix Print System). It is composed of 2 parts :

• Development library : this library allows developers to provides CUPS support to their Qt applications with a few changes in the code as the "QCupsPrinter" class has the same interface as the classical "QPrinter" class of Qt. For normal use, the developer has only to change the printer object type.
• CUPS front-end : this is a very intuitive graphical front-end based on the development library. It is intended to be a replacement for "lpr" and will support the same syntax. This front-end allows the user to select and configure printers in a nice interface. The user has also the ability to save his printer configuration locally.

• basic options : copies, order, printer, page ranges, ...
• printer options :
• general : paper type, source and orientation, number of pages per sheet, color/B&W, ...
• image : brightness, hue, saturation, scaling and/or resolution, image position, ...
• text : syntax highlighting, columns, page margins, ...
• HP-GL/2 settings
• Postscript : gamma correction, PPD (Postscript Printer Description) settings
• ability to save printer configuration locally
• ability to detect unavailable printer destintations

QTCUPS requires the followings elements in order to be compiled and/or run :

• Qt-1.4x (won't work with Qt >= 2, the port has still to be done)
• CUPS-1.1 or higher
• UNIX system with a standard C++ compilation system (currently tested under Linux)

Latest QTCUPS version is 0.2. It is available at these locations :

• SourceForge project site
• FTP site
• CVS

Screenshots

And here are some screenshots to show you how it looks :

• main print dialog (8.7 KB)
• general options (9.9 KB)
• image options (83.6 KB)
• text options (10.4 KB)
• HP-GL/2 options (5.7 KB)
• advanced (PPD) options (8.5 KB)

• CUPS
• KUPS (CUPS administration tool for KDE)
• XPP (light X11 graphical front-end for CUPS, using FLTK library)
• Qt
• KDE
• GtkLP (Gtk+ graphical front-end for CUPS)

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at goffioul@emic.ucl.ac.be