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I hear that Qt 4.6 goes into feature freeze at the end of this month, so that's like in 1 working days time.  Eeep!  I'd better get those printing changes pushed upstream then.  Is there some official place where such dates are advertised I should have been watching?

I've pushed the latest version of my code to a new Gitorious branch http://qt.gitorious.org/~odysseus/qt/odysseus-clone/commits/advanced-pag..., and I may just have to put in a merge request even though it's not quite done.  First the screenie:

As you can see I now have an editable range field that allows you to enter multiple page ranges, in addition to the Page Set and Current Page stuff I'd previously added.  This will show up for all applications that enable it, or if you are running Cups as your print system, i.e. 99.99% of you out there.  If you don't have Cups, then you get the traditional From/To page range entry.  This is not enabled on Win or Mac as yet, but it should be possible and I've designed it so it can be added without altering the API and so it gracefully degardes to the maximum feature set supported by your platform without the app programmer having to do anything.

Status is that I think this is API complete and stable, the only thing missing is the validation of the Page Range input by the user and some other small clean-ups of the dialog layout (yes, that radio button glitch visible in the screenie is proving a pain to solve).

Like I said, I'll probably put in a merge request for this now and worry about patching the remaining issues later.  I think I should also have the File Printing under Unix feature done in the next day, so that may also make it.  Less likely are the additional Cups features (n-up, banners, job control, etc) depending on how far I get this weekend (but we already add those ourselves), and the rest like saving/restoring settings and virtual printers will have to wait for 4.7 (or the new OpenPrinting dialog, whichever comes first).