On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 12:25, Michael Knepher wrote: > Is XPrint supposed to be a solution for this? I've only skimmed briefly > over the info about the new xorg release at freedesktop.org, so I'm not > sure if it would allow similar functionality. > No, XPrint is an X server feature that lets you draw to the printer using the same operations used to draw to the screen. Most of the Linux desktop crowd thinks it's fundamentally a broken design, because the drawing operations aren't vector-based and because it's in the X server instead of being a library. So the alternative is something like Cairo (in future) or right now the printing stuff in Qt and gnome-print. All these things have to do with generating postscript; an orthogonal question is how you get the postscript to the printer, which is most simply done by feeding it to lpr, but there are more complex things people also want to do. Havoc -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
