Re: Another GSoC Success - the Cairo Graphics class

Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
>> Can you you look at that Dom? I wrote a "CairoPrintDirectly"
>> EditMethod for this purpose but it isn't hooked up properly because I
>> haven't taken the time to work out exactly what you need it to do.
>
> Thanks for doing this, Martin. I hadn't planned to hook up cairo to
> the command-line printing infrastructure in the 2.7 series. In fact,
> I'd planned to gut it.
>
> Cairo will give us high-quality results. I've already hooked up the PS
> and PDF exporters to use the Cairo graphics class. And since my libgsf
> work, we can send output directly to stdout.
>
> So, I'd planned on removing the command-line printing infrastructure
> in favor of something like:
>
> AbiWord --to=pdf --to-name=fd://1 | lpr -pPrinterName
>
> It's less code to maintain, gives the users more power, and fits
> better with the Unix philosophy.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
>

My only concern here is the windows users: Is a similar procedure
available on that platform?

Ryan

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