On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:13:19 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Jeremy Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Rob wrote:
>> I could also spit out raw postscript, but though I know enough
>> postscript to do it, I really don't want to get into the layout
>> business right now...
>*shrug* I think the postscript thing sounds good. Eventually I would
>like to use gnome-print but not until it is included in the main stream
>Gnome releases. Its not right?
I'll buy the "do gnome-print" idea; that seems preferable to coming up
with Yet Another Infrastructure Atop Postscript. That is, roughly speaking,
the Postscript equivalent to creating a new GUI (e.g. - like GTK/FLTK/...).
I quite agree that avoiding the "layout business" is likely a wise move;
the other two major alternatives would be:
a) Export XML, and expect to use some XSL environment to render it for
visual and printed output, or
b) Export Gnumeric-compatible XML, thus rendering the report as a
spreadsheet, and thus push responsibility for visual and printed
rendering to Gnumeric.
I actually quite like the latter option; that also pushes the numbers
over *as numbers,* formulae (e.g. - totals) over *as totals,* and so
forth, with the ability to manipulate them further on the Gnumeric side
of things.
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