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<qt>You are about to set a pseudo-printer as your personal default. This setting is specific to KDE and will not be available outside KDE applications. Note that this will only make your personal default printer as undefined for non-KDE applications and should not prevent you from printing normally. Do you really want to set <b>%1</b> as your personal default?</qt>

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<qt><b>Printer Location:</b> The <em>Location</em> may describe where the selected printer is located. The Location description is created by the administrator of the print system (or may be left empty). </qt>

<qt><b>Printer Type:</b> The <em>Type</em> indicates your printer type. </qt>

<qt><b>Printer State:</b> The <em>State</em> indicates the state of the print queue on the print server (which could be your localhost). The state may be 'Idle', 'Processing', 'Stopped', 'Paused' or similar. </qt>

<qt><b>Printer Comment:</b> The <em>Comment</em> may describe the selected printer. This comment is created by the administrator of the print system (or may be left empty). </qt>

<qt><b>Printer Selection Menu:</b> <p>Use this combo box to select the printer to which you want to print. Initially (if you run KDEPrint for the first time), you may only find the <em>KDE special printers</em> (which save jobs to disk [as PostScript- or PDF-files], or deliver jobs via email (as a PDF attachment). If you are missing a real printer, you need to... <ul> <li>...either create a local printer with the help of the <em>KDE Add Printer Wizard</em>. The Wizard is available for the CUPS and RLPR printing systems (click button to the left of the <em>'Properties'</em> button),</li> <li>...or try to connect to an existing remote CUPS print server. You can connect by clicking the <em>'System Options'</em> button below. A new dialog opens: click on the <em>'CUPS server'</em> icon: Fill in the information required to use the remote server. </li> </ul> <p><b>Note:</b> It may happen that you successfully connected to a remote CUPS server and still do not get a printer list. If this happens: force KDEPrint to re-load its configuration files. To reload the configuration files, either start kprinter again, or use the switch the print system away from CUPS and back again once. The print system switch can be made through a selection in the drop-down menu at bottom of this dialog when fully expanded). </p> </qt>

<qt><b>Print Job Properties:</b> <p>This button opens a dialog where you can make decisions regarding all supported print job options. </qt>

<qt><b>Selective View on List of Printers:</b> <p> This button reduces the list of visible printers to a shorter, more convenient, pre-defined list.</p> <p>This is particularly useful in enterprise environments with lots of printers. The default is to show <b>all</b> printers.</p> <p>To create a personal <em>'selective view list'</em>, click on the <em>'System Options'</em> button at the bottom of this dialog. Then, in the new dialog, select <em>'Filter'</em> (left column in the <em>KDE Print Configuration</em> dialog) and setup your selection..</p> <p><b>Warning:</b> Clicking this button without prior creation of a personal <em>'selective view list'</em> will make all printers dissappear from the view. (To re-enable all printers, just click this button again.) </p> </qt>

<qt><b>KDE Add Printer Wizard</b> <p>This button starts the <em>KDE Add Printer Wizard</em>.</p> <p>Use the Wizard (with <em>"CUPS"</em> or <em>"RLPR"</em>) to add locally defined printers to your system. </p> <p><b>Note:</b> The <em>KDE Add Printer Wizard</em> does <b>not</b> work, and this button is disabled if you use <em>"Generic LPD</em>", <em>"LPRng"</em>, or <em>"Print Through an External Program</em>".) </p> </qt>

<qt><b>External Print Command</b> <p>Here you can enter any command that would also print for you in a <em>konsole</em> window. </p> <b>Example:</b> <pre>a2ps -P &lt;printername&gt; --medium=A3</pre>. </qt>

<qt><b>Additional Print Job Options</b> <p>This button shows or hides additional printing options.</qt>

<qt><b>System Options:</b> <p>This button starts a new dialog where you can adjust various settings of your printing system. Amongst them: <ul><li> Should KDE applications embed all fonts into the PostScript they generate for printing? <li> Should KDE use an external PostScript viewer like <em>gv</em> for print page previews? <li> Should KDEPrint use a local or a remote CUPS server?, </ul> and many more.... </qt>

<qt><b>Help:</b> This button takes you to the complete <em>KDEPrint Manual</em>. </qt>

<qt><b>Cancel:</b> This button cancels your print job and quits the kprinter dialog. </qt>

<qt><b>Print:</b> This button sends the job to the printing process. If you are sending non-PostScript files, you may be asked if you want KDE to convert the files into PostScript, or if you want your print subsystem (like CUPS) to do this. </qt>

<qt><b>Keep Printing Dialog Open</b><p>If you enable this checkbox, the printing dialog stays open after you hit the <em>Print</em> button.</p> <p> This is especially useful, if you need to test various print settings (like color matching for an inkjet printer) or if you want to send your job to multiple printers (one after the other) to have it finished more quickly.</p> </qt>

<qt><b>Output File Name and Path:</b> The "Output file:" shows you where your file will be saved if you decide to "Print to File" your job, using one of the KDE <em>Special Printers</em> named "Print to File (PostScript)" or "Print to File (PDF)". Choose a name and location that suits your need by using the button and/or editing the line on the right. </qt>

<qt><b>Output File Name and Path:</b> Edit this line to create a path and filename that suits your needs. (Button and Lineedit field are only available if you "Print to File") </qt>

<qt><b>Browse Directories button:<b> This button calls the "File Open / Browsed Directories" dialog to let you choose a directory and file name where your "Print-to-File" job should be saved. </qt>

<qt><b>Add File to Job</b> <p>This button calls the "File Open / Browse Directories" dialog to allow you to select a file for printing. Note, that <ul><li>you can select ASCII or International Text, PDF, PostScript, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF and many other graphical formats. <li>you can select various files from different paths and send them as one "multi-file job" to the printing system. </ul> </qt>

<qt><b>Print Preview</b> Enable this checkbox if you want to see a preview of your printout. A preview lets you check if, for instance, your intended "poster" or "pamphlet" layout looks like you expected, without wasting paper first. It also lets you cancel the job if something looks wrong. <p><b>Note:</b> The preview feature (and therefore this checkbox) is only visible for printjobs created from inside KDE applications. If you start kprinter from the commandline, or if you use kprinter as a print command for non-KDE applications (like Acrobat Reader, Firefox or OpenOffice), print preview is not available here. </qt>

<qt><b>Set as Default Printer</b> This button sets the current printer as the user's default. <p><b>Note:</b> (Button is only visible if the checkbox for <em>System Options</em> --> <em>General</em> --> <em>Miscellaneous</em>: <em>"Defaults to the last printer used in the application"</em> is disabled.) </qt>

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