Re: tiff print in gnome-print

Ghee Teo <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:08:30 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.print
Organization Sun Microsystems Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lutz M=FCller wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:52 +0100, PChot wrote:
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>> So naturaly i try to find out what i have to do that this will work in
>> gnome. I try to find out how is "GNOME-PDF-WRITER.xml " created and
>> how can i use it for template but i don't have much luck. =

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>
> All GNOME printing work is now done within gtk. See
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/Printing.html.
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  Well. This is not strictly true. Only applications which have migrated =

over to use the
new GTK+ 2.10.x printing API has this. The list of GNOME apps I knew =

about todate
are evince, yelp, epiphany, and gimp. There may be other apps have =

adopted the new
printing API that I do not know off :) For example, I know gedit still =

uses lignomeprint
in GNOME 2.16.

> I think (but I'm not sure) that they use cairo for actual rendering. You
> would therefore need to write a tiff backend for cairo
> (http://www.cairographics.org/).
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  The GTK+ printing does uses cairo for rendering.

-Ghee
> Regards
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