Re: Kaddressbook print feature

Hello Ingo.
Thanks for the advice.
I'm just learning c++, so updating this might be difficult for me - but also 
might be a good learning opportunity.
I'll wait for 4.4 release to see how it works in the rewritten code.
Regards,
Mike


On Sun January 10 2010 22:27:51 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 10 January 2010, Mike Moore wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > This holiday, my wife and I went shopping for a new paper address
> > book for her.  She then spent an hour and copied all her old
> > addresses into the new book.  It was clear to me that a better way to
> > do this is to maintain your contacts in kaddressbook and then print
> > them out for reference - thus you can maintain both a paper and
> > electronic version.
> >
> > Kaddressbook has this capability, but I find the printing options
> > limited. I would like to create some new print templates (and perhaps
> > correct one of the existing templates I saw having format problems).
> > This would help my wife, give me a nice project to work on in my
> > limited spare time, and allow me to contribute something back to the
> > wonderful KDE community.
> >
> > Any thoughts on where to begin?  I would like to correspond with
> > someone directly for a few hints on where the print templates are
> > stored, etc... (or on mailing list if appropriate).
> 
> As far as I can see the printing templates are hard-coded. If you know
> C++ then you can of course still fix them or create new ones. You might
> want to wait for KDE SC 4.4 since KAddressBook has been rewritten from
> scratch.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
>