Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> I've started looking at libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui. I had 
> guessed that the former allows printing without any gui while the
> second gives a dialog box allowing one to choose printers, set
> options etc.

After looking at libgnomeprint I am 100% certain that libcairo with
its Postscript backend is the right way to go.

> That would be OK if I could figure out how to do graphics. Text
> is fine, but the (rather dumb) printer doesn't handle postscript
> directly.

It turns out that this was a problem with the crappy Postscript from
some application. Good quality postscript feed into CUPS and then
into the printer works just fine.

Erik
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