On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 00:28 +0100, Chris Vine wrote: > 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. aha. a very fair point, and one that is highly relevant to the OP's question. Richard, i think you need to think carefully about how you would print this file *outside* of GTK. if selecting a printer and identifying the file to be sent there is not enough to get the job done, its a bit hard to expect GTK to go the extra mile and work this way. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
