Re: Bonobo and printing

Michael Meeks wrote:

>Hi Jean,
>
>On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 09:32, Jean Bréfort wrote:
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>>I would like to add some printing capablility to some Bonobo components.
>>In Bonobo_Print.idl, I read the following comment about the render
>>method:
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>...
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>>I could not find out what is a gnome-print Meat Stream and how to create
>>one. Why not use a GnomePrintContext?
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>	;-) The simple reason is that that is a process local resorce. We have
>to stream to a meta context, then to a stream, then re-render locally to
>the master context.
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>>Some help would be gratefully welcomed.
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>	There was a core implementation in bonobo 1.0, I ported it to Gnome 2.0
>but Chema seems to have binned it - I don't know where that work went -
>Chema ? Copies of the original 1.0 version are in CVS module 'bonobo'
>bonobo/bonobo-print*.
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>	What do you want to use this for though ?
>
>	HTH,
>
>		Michael.
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Just now, I would like to add printing to mozilla-bonobo if possible. 
Later, I think it will be useful to print compound documents. It is 
something I have tested with gnome-1 and which is not in gnome-2 at the 
moment:-(

Best regards,

Jean