On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:04:19 -0400 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 14:12 +0100, Chris Vine wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:40:20 +0200 (CEST) > > "Richard Boaz" <riboaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [snip] > > [ ... snip snip snip ... ] > > this sounds like a disaster of an API. > > most other GTK/GDK APIs that involve things that ultimately come down > to pixels seem to have variants that allow you to provide > unstructured data and structured data, sometimes in multiple formats. > there is often a way to get data directly from a file too. > > a print API that hides all the hard work of printer discovery and > configuration but then prevents you from pointing it at a file to get > the data to be printed seems fundamentally broken. On the issue of printing a postscript file under windows, I don't think GTK+ should be expected to provide its own postscript interpreter, just because windows does not natively support printing postscript in the way that unix-like OSes do. Postscript is more than just data: it is in effect a computer language. Should GTK+ also, for example, provide for the printing of a text file just by loading it? Printing plain text with GtkPrintOperation is relatively trivial, but it still requires rendering by hand to a cairo surface using a pango layout and pango-cairo in the draw-page callback. I think that is probably right. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
