Hi, I just tried the gnome port first time today. I was very frustrated by the printing. I was experimenting with 0.7.13 release notes file, applying various formatting changes to some paragraphs (like text color, fill color). The Gnome-print is far from ready I think (or implementation of printing via gnome-print in AW is not complete): * It looks like gnome print (or AW when using GP) doesn't support color in any way (and even shades of gray). Though I didn't configure my GP at all (it was using all "factory presets" - I was using a ximian's package) - may be it possible.. * Printing with symbol fonts doesn't work - symbols disappear in .ps generated by gnome-print (i.e., they will be absent on the paper), and seen as squares in print preview (tested under english locale too, so it's not locale-specific). This means printing of lists is broken - you get NO bullets in lists! * It seems GP doesn't support ttf printing in any way. Also printing of non-latin1 texts is not supported (in fact, looking at the source of GP should work for single-byte encoding, but AW currently ignores any non-iso-8859-1 chars when printing to GP). Not to say about BiDi.. Considering all this I think it would be wiser to provide PS generation ability in the gnome port (e.g. under menu "Print directly" - just enable the compilation of the sources and hook that gtk dialog to this menu item), or even don't use GP at all for now. It seems all linux distibutors will ship gnome version of AW, so we will get VERY BAD perception for things we are not really guilty. Anyway, it's too rude for out users to force them hunting for pure gtk version of AW for their distribution in order they to be able to print normally. It's unfair an should be fixed. Another option is not to recomment gnome port to the users... What do you think about this? Let's respect our users if we want any... Best regards, -Vlad
