Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote on 2003-06-30: > It still sucks that there's no support for printing,
There is XPrint (I gotta try it somewhen). > although if someone claimed that a Windowing system and a printer > infrastructure aren't REALLY connected and only seem so on the > surfarce I'll be willing to listen although not sure I'd agree in > the end :-) > Since I never wrote a program that prints something, I take no stance on whether directly emitting PostScript or using the windowing system's calls is an easier way to program printing. NeXTStep comes to mind as a surprising POV on the issue ;). Both approaches have interesting impacts for cross-platform / cross-toolkit applications. What I *am* able to say is that as a user of the system, I absolutely want the ability to capture the document as PS / PDF (and for quality PDF, with embedded information on what is the text behind the image and the like, I'm not sure windowing calls can suffice) and the ability to get true printing previews. The only ones that I know that got this right are KDE that give you GhostScript preview of what is about to be printed. Mozilla is the best example of a program whose print preview never matches the output and I can't understand why they ever bothered to implement it. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
