Re: libgnomeprintmm and printing pixbuf.

Murray Cumming <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Apr 2005 02:17:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.gnomemm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 02:10 +0200, Sebastian Vork=C3=B6per wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> i'm working with libgnomeprintmm-2.5.1 lately and couldn't figure out
> how to print pictures (pixbufs).
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> I know how to do it with "normal" libgnomeprint.
>=20
> So with libgnomeprint i would do:
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> guchar *raw_image =3D gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels (pixbuf);
> gint rowstride =3D gdk_pixbuf_get_rowstride (pixbuf);
> gint height =3D gdk_pixbuf_get_height (pixbuf);
> gint width =3D gdk_pixbuf_get_width (pixbuf);
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> gnome_print_rgbimage (context, (char *) raw_image, width, height,
> rowstride);
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> But how to do it with libgnomeprintmm?
> Or better: How would i create a "const Glib::ustring& data" out of
> "guint8* Gdk::Pixbuf::get_pixels  (  )   const" ?
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> context->rgb_image( ??? , pixbuf->get_width(), pixbuf->get_height(),
> pixbuf->get_rowstride())

It's very possible that the libgnomeprintmm API is wrong. A patch would
be welcome.

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Murray Cumming
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