2014-06-17 8:02 GMT+02:00 Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net>: > > Following the IRC discussion last night. We agree that CUPS is the way > to go. But we need to discuss the technology(ies) that can be used to > *compose* the page to be printed. > > I have used Gutenprint API for this at this point but it seems desirable > to not depend on too specific driver. By using Gutenprint we will miss > some printers not supported by it. > > At this point we have discussed briefly tow paths: > > - Using a cairo PS surface > > - Using ImageMagick > > Both are available on Linux and MacOS and even on Windows if we do port > darktable to this platform in the future.
Since Cairo is already part of Darktable "stack" (being pulled by GTK), I would strongly advocate for it (it is also used by all GNOME applications and Firefox) and not add yet another external dependencies like ImageMagick. -- Frederic Crozat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list darktable-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
