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Link: http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2310
Version: 1.3-feature


Linux/Unix support: what should be done?

Looking at fluid's print support, we do already have a Linux/Unix printing
function based on PostScript output. AFAICT this is the usual Linux/Unix
approach. Unfortunately the current implementation is only capable of
drawing a page header and writing images to a PS file. For complete PS
output we would probably need full postscript device support, but that
might be tricky and maybe only doable with FLTK's (planned) device
separation - that might be far in the future(?).

However, we could also try to use one Fl_Offscreen for drawing one page at
a time and then write this as an image to the output file/device. This
would probably be easy, but have some drawbacks (no selectable text in the
PS output (*), big files), but for printing this would probably suffice.

(*) ... or PDF files with a ps2pdf filter ;-)

Any ideas about Linux/Unix printing support and about this great start for
printing support in FLTK? Anybody?


Link: http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2310
Version: 1.3-feature

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