Re: printing to PDF

Lauris Kaplinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.sodipodi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello!

marco kirjutas R, 06.02.2004 kell 05:08:
> > sodipodi will not create PDFs directly; you must print to a postscript
> > file, then convert the ps to pdf with a separate program (named ps2pdf
> > on my system.)
> 
> Isn't it doable using kprinter or another printing system without coding
> to much ?

The big problem (or the big benefit - depending on needs) is, that
both sodipodi KDE and Win32 printing backends print everything
via bitmaps. For internal PS driver it is possible to choose
(only from UI) 'PS operators' or 'bitmap', depending on needs.
It can be interesting excercise to hack pure PS driver to work
with semitransparent shapes, gradients and so on, but seems that
nobody has had time to do that yet.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski




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