Hi,
I’m using Kubuntu with KDE Plasma 6 and I want to make printing multiple PDFs as easy as in Windows. Specifically, I’d like a right-click context menu option in Dolphin that appears when I select multiple PDF files, so I can print them all at once without opening each file individually.
Is there a way to create this in Dolphin, for example via a Service Menu or script, so that “Print all PDFs” appears directly in the context menu?
Thanks for any guidance!
the lpcommand will print multiple .pdf documents without any user input to the default printer.
a service menu would look like
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=application/pdf;
Icon=
Actions=1-print;
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
[Desktop Action 1-print]
Icon=pdftex
Exec=lp %F
Name=printPDFs
name is something appropriate ending in .desktop
put it in your ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/ directory
and you should now have a new item in the context menu whenever you right click on a pdf or selection of pdfs.
Thank you. I tried something similar, but I was placing it in the wrong directory.
By the way, to make your code work I had to explicitly specify my printer, otherwise I get an error.
Is there a way to use the default printer instead?
[Desktop Entry]
Type=ServiceServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=application/pdf;
Icon=printer
Actions=1-print;
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
[Desktop Action 1-print]
Icon=printer
Exec=sh -c ‘for f in “$@”; do lp -d EPSON_WF_2930_Series “$f” 2>/tmp/print_error.log || kdialog --error “Errore nella stampa del file: $f”; done’ dummy %U
Name=printPDFs
man lpadmin
my distro must have already done that for me.
