On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 14:02 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 19:54 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 12:46 -0500 schrieb Cody Russell: > > > I was thinking that it would be nice if there was an integrated print > > > preview widget in GTK+, that would be available cross-platform and > > > wanted to check with people here before I commit much time to this. > > > Right now we're spawning another process to do this, and I think an > > > integrated widget would be much nicer. > > > > I fully agree with you. > > +1 too. Though opening the actual generated PDF in evince is always > going to be a more reliable preview than rendering to a widget. There > always will be bugs here and there, you know...
_If_ gtk+ printing has to go through a cairo layer, I don't see why this would be so. Cairo should render the same content to screen as it does to a PS/PDF file. By explicit goal of the Cairo project, this _must work_. You could claim quite the reverse. If print preview does not go through App->Cairo->PDF->Cairo->Screen layers (would be only App->Cairo->Screen), then users will not catch PDF/PS generation bugs so soon, they only see the bugs appear on paper, and then it will be convoluted by printer driver bugs, etc. Anyway, +1 from me too. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list