On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eben Eliason wrote: >> I have to agree that a print to pdf function could be useful, though, >> especially since it means that every activity can create output that >> can be transferred elsewhere (via email, USB drive, etc.) for >> printing. This provides a method, albeit indirect, for G1G1 users to >> print from various activities whose file formats are only understood >> by a Sugar activity. > > No, it doesn't. What we are discussing here is building PDF conversion > functionality directly into Glucose. That means that the PDF renderer > will support a fixed set of common file formats, corresponding to the > output of a few popular Activities. At the moment, I am not aware of any > Activity that produces printable data in a nonstandard format. Write > produces Open Document Text. Record produces JPEG. Paint produces PNG. > Therefore, these are the formats that the PDF renderer will support.
Um, last time I checked there were a few more activities than these which might benefit from printing. Wade _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel