Hi On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > But how much work was needed to get the "childplay" to work? How much > > work was needed by the KDE people? by the QT people? > > KDE People. It has nothing to do with QT people ;)
A lot. Again: xprint is not much about spooling. It is about rendering to postscript. It does not replace cups/lpd. Both QT and KDE have tons of their own code to convert to basically print to postscript. > > > What about application support? > > Any app that can do LPR, can print to CUPS. Heck, you can even use kprinter > from any X app and get the improved KDE printing (anyone who played with > marginal printing can tell you horrified stories about that) But the input to that has to be postscript. The original application is responsible for the rendering to postscript. Note that the ugly work around this (client-side rendering) means you practically won't have network transparentcy: The client has to be aware of the location of the fonts files. Fonts can no longer be provided through X. But then again, who uses xprint? And I think it also requires something about vector fonts be local to the X print server, or otherwise they will be rendered as botmap fonts. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[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]
