On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 10:54 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Tomas, > > Congrats on all your work to get printing going with the pango > > graphics class. > > > > It now basically works. > > > > However I'm seeing substantial non-WYSIWYG behaviour. A document of 3 > > pages plus 2 lines on page 4 while on screen becomes 3 pages (less 2 > > lines) in print preview. > > > > Do you have an idea what is happenning here? How do you plan to to fix it? > > This is the problem I described in an earlier mail to the list; the > GnomePrint Pango backend obtains font metrics for hardcoded resolution > of 72dpi; Pango-xft backend uses whatever the X server is running with > (96dpi on my machine), and the font metrics obtained for the two > resolutions do not match. This is really a GnomePrint bug/API issue, and > should be addressed in GP, but that needs some GnomePrint knowledge > which I do not have. I have emailed Jody a while back, but had no reply > as yet. >
I'm cross posting this to Jody directly the gnumeric list. Can we just grep through the gnome-print code, hunt down all the 72.0 assumptions and replace them with a definable resolution? I can't see why we gnome-print needs 72.0 to be hard-coded. Maybe someone else can tell us? Cheers Martin > Tomas > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
