Re: Gnome-print and Cairo

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:33 +0100, Sven de Marothy wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm hacking a bit on GNU Classpath, the free Java runtime effort, and
> progress has been very good recently. (about 200k lines of code so far
> this year!)
> 
> However, one of the missing pieces left for us is printing. Now, our AWT
> implementation is currently built on Gnome and Pango, so this is where
> gnome-print comes in. 
> 
> The Java API allows for native printing dialogs to be used, so obviously
> this is something we'd like. However, Java uses the Java2D imaging model
> both for on-screen drawing and printing. 
> 
> The java2d model is relatively advanced, with support for compositing
> and so on, and our current implementation of that part for on-screen
> drawing uses Cairo.
> 
> I wrote a bit fuller description of the current situation on our
> mailing-list:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-11/msg00077.html
> 
> Basically, we'd like to have Cairo integrated with gnome-print. If I've
> understood it correctly (and please, correct me if I'm wrong) the
> long-term plan for gnome-print is in this direction too?

Long term plan is libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui go away, and 
the print dialog moves to GTK+.

Regards,
						Owen

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