Comments on: Print yourself! http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/ Cool links and commentary Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:04:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ross http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Ross Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-90 The text in the PDF isn't sharp at all, it's very blury. Is that a known issue? The text in the PDF isn’t sharp at all, it’s very blury. Is that a known issue?

]]> By: Danny http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Danny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-91 It looks like the text is converted to a raster image. It could be from the printfile > pdf creation step (actually, I hope it is)... It looks like the text is converted to a raster image. It could be from the printfile > pdf creation step (actually, I hope it is)…

]]> By: Alexander Larsson http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Alexander Larsson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-92 Thats the current cairo pdf generator, work is going on to make that better. Thats the current cairo pdf generator, work is going on to make that better.

]]> By: Ross http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Ross Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-93 Thought so, glad it's being worked on. Thought so, glad it’s being worked on.

]]> By: Petar http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Petar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-94 Is there any documentation, or should we just look at the code? Can you provide some some practical examples of how this will make printing better?<p/>Keep up the good work<br/>Petar<br/> Is there any documentation, or should we just look at the code? Can you provide some some practical examples of how this will make printing better?

Keep up the good work
Petar

]]> By: tbf http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-95 tbf Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-95 Petar wrote:<br/>> how this will make printing better?<p/>This API will allow you to use the same Cairo based drawing code for rendering your document with your application as for printing it, sending it via mail, whatever - and if this should not be advantage enough: This API will support you on printer detection, paper setup and pagination. Well and it will be platform independent. Guess that should be sufficient advantage over handcrafted Postscript to lp piping, shouldn't it? Petar wrote:
> how this will make printing better?

This API will allow you to use the same Cairo based drawing code for rendering your document with your application as for printing it, sending it via mail, whatever – and if this should not be advantage enough: This API will support you on printer detection, paper setup and pagination. Well and it will be platform independent. Guess that should be sufficient advantage over handcrafted Postscript to lp piping, shouldn’t it?

]]> By: Petar http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Petar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-96 tbf, I wasn't tying to be unpleasant, I'm not a developer and I just needed clarification. Thanks for the info!<br/>I'm glad that people are thinking about printing, I've felt it was forgoten for for some time... tbf, I wasn’t tying to be unpleasant, I’m not a developer and I just needed clarification. Thanks for the info!
I’m glad that people are thinking about printing, I’ve felt it was forgoten for for some time…

]]> By: tbf http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-97 tbf Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-97 @Petar: Sorry for being harsh. My work is quite unpleasant today, should try harder to find a job where I can work with the GNOME platform. :-/ @Petar: Sorry for being harsh. My work is quite unpleasant today, should try harder to find a job where I can work with the GNOME platform. :-/

]]> By: Christian Neumair http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Christian Neumair Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-98 You rock so much Alex! This piece of software is awesome and vastly improves the printing platform! You rock so much Alex! This piece of software is awesome and vastly improves the printing platform!

]]> By: Duncan http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Duncan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2006/01/27/print-yourself/#comment-99 Alexander, my only concert having looked at the C API is that it looks like we have to use a different pango layout constructor function egg_print_context_create_layout(EggPrintContext *context) rather than pango_cairo_create_layout (cairo_t *cr) which we normally use when using pango with cairo.<p/>Doesn't this mean that we'd have to use different code to print to a pdf than to print to draw to the screen? I thought that was one of the main advantages of using cairo for Gtk+, that we could share our drawing and printing code.<p/>Am I misunderstanding? Alexander, my only concert having looked at the C API is that it looks like we have to use a different pango layout constructor function egg_print_context_create_layout(EggPrintContext *context) rather than pango_cairo_create_layout (cairo_t *cr) which we normally use when using pango with cairo.

Doesn’t this mean that we’d have to use different code to print to a pdf than to print to draw to the screen? I thought that was one of the main advantages of using cairo for Gtk+, that we could share our drawing and printing code.

Am I misunderstanding?

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