Re: [Sugar-devel] Print Support proposal Final(input please)

2009-03-21 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
UPDATE: The entire CUPS daemon with dependencies takes 18 mb installation space(including cache rpms) on the XO laptops, so if a only cups-client and dependencies is installed it should take less space. (info credit : Luke, who was kind enough to check this on his XO) I will need suggestions, if t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Print Support proposal Final(input please)

2009-03-20 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Print Support proposal Final(input please)

2009-03-20 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
correction, even here we can just directly end the output files On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri < vamsi.davul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1) Implement print-to-pdf, transfer the file to the server in a normal > tcp/ip protocol, and never interact with CUPS client side, the tr

[Sugar-devel] Print Support proposal Final(input please)

2009-03-20 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
I have come up with two approaches: I will be concise this time. And try to talk less on sugarizing it. Thanks to tomeu and silbe, and a little fiddling around, it is now clear that rendering to pdf is in no way dependent on CUPS, it can be done with the cairo libs, and gtk print. And even documen