Re: Abiword embedding

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:13:47AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 
> My intent is not to prolong this thread forever & ever, 
> really, it isn't ...
> 
> > > -- graphing.  Jody is creating gog, we were looking at using that
> > >    for the graphs.  Seeing how we currently embed graphs in html,
> > >    the question would be, 'will I be able to embed gog graphs in abi?'
>  
> When this issue first came up, we wanted to embed guppi in gtkhtml.
> The solution we arrived upon that time was to treat the embeded 
> object as if it was a block of pixels, e.g. like a png, and let
> the layout engine treat it as such.  i.e. it was "opaque" to gtkhtml,
> and gtkhml only knew about its size and shape.
> 
> To draw it, some draw callback wound its way back through a glue layer 
> to guppi, told it where to draw, and bingo, drawn.  To print, something 
> similar.  I guess (?) it asked generic wrapper (which we wraped 
> around guppi) to provide a png or ps of itself suitable for printing. 
 
The main rendering backend right now produces a GdkPixbuf that we
wrap in a foocanvas item.  Sticking it into something else should be
trivial.

We also have an svg and a gnome-print backend, which should cover
printing.