Hello KDE friends
am a long-year-KDE user and actually upgraded my OS to openSUSE 11.2 x86_64 with KDE 4.3.1.
With most applications and changes I feel familiar meanwhile, however, one software tool which is crucial for me for my business working is sadly missed within kde4: It is kdeprintfax. I regularely take it for sending ps- and pdf-documents with capisuitefax. Capisuitefax is still running perfectly however I do not find a new or alternative faxing tool on KDE now. So, does anybody know, how to get a workaround within KDE or, even better, how to inspire the KDE makers to implement kdeprintfax or similar faxing tool on a future KDE release, as not all of the KDE users are bare home users, and for office users facsimile remains important!

Greetings Z.

Unfortunately, printing in KDE 4 is currently a very under looked area, due to lack of developers.

What a pity. Unfortunately my IT skills are too low (let me say they don't exist!) to generate new. However, what about the former developpers or maintainers of the KDE3-package-tool kdeprintfax (and also kprinter in general) is there no chance to modify it to fit it to kde4. Sorry probably this hope is too naive??

Bye. Z.

I noticed that you use openSUSE, which means courtesy of the openSUSE Build Service, KDE 3 is still available to you.

Add the repository http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... SUSE_11.2/ using YaST, and you should be able to install kdeprintfax and use it from within KDE 3.

Thank's for the hint. Yes, I only had to install kdebase3 via YAST, and kdeprintfax is present now and works.
Unfortunately it refers to the kabc-Adressbook of the .kde-directory, so you have to copy std.vcf from the .kde4 subdirectory to .kde in order to be able to use the kadressbook for faxing.
Furthermore, kdeprintfax's use on kde4 is hampered by its missing implementation in the kde4-printer dialog. This results in a somewhat pedestrian handling of the tool as you have to generate a ps-print-document before you can apply kdeprintfax - however, it works, that's a good thing for me.

Merry Christmas

Z,

While it's of no use to you, it might help others to know that any all-in-one supported by hplip (HP printers) can print to fax. It uses its own addressbook, though, so you set up fax number the first time you use them and it offers them from a drop down list in future.