What's the real status of the postscript printing module (gfx/src/ps)? Is it so dead that it's pointless to even try to fix it, e.g <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144663>? Or is it just waiting for someone to step up who's willing to work on it?
As far as I can tell, the state of the module is as follows:
1) There is no module owner
2) There is no one working on the code
3) The code needs major structural changes to reach something
resembling xprint/windows/mac parity in lots of ways. Chief among
these is removing the reliance on global variables which prevents
print preview from really working and causes various other issues.I suspect that any changes to the module which make it better would be greatly accepted, even if we decide to make the move to using xprint as our primary printing system on Unix (which is a religious war the outcome of which I cannot predict).
-Boris
