Re: [Fwd: Re: [Dlc-discuss] The Path to the Desktop]

Hello James,

I need to say that I tend to agree with majority of the things Havoc wrote in 
his mail.
GhostScript is kind of legacy application, IMO. We still need it, but I hope 
we would be able to get rid of GS in nearest future.
Most of GS developers are working on Windows platform, and they DO NOT CARE 
about Linux/UNIX. Believe me, I have asked them about FontConfig/unified font 
configuration with other Linux apps, and that was the answer.
Ok, may be the answer was "if you implement this, we can adapt", but they are 
not going to implement FC compatibility on their own.

Xr/Xc platform (now renamed to "Cairo") is very powerful rendering platform 
based on PostScript and SVG primitives, with possibility to support export to 
PDF in the future.

CUPS is working like a daemon already for some time (at least on my computer)
Several Linux distributions (in particular: Mandrake) ship ESP (a-ka: 
CUPS-optimized) GhostScript as standard GS interpreter.
So, CUPS/GS integration is already happened for users of those distros.

If you have more questions about projects mentioned above - pls let me know.

Vadim

On Monday 11 August 2003 03:47, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
|  I would say that HP was awarded something :-D but he is just being his
|  usual acerbic self.
|
|  What the HELL is Cairo?  Yes, I've been there:
|
|  	http://cairographics.org/
|
|  GhostScript doesn't do FontConfig.
|
|  And I sure hope that they fix CUPS because it took a major hack to get to
|  find my fonts.
|
|  Any comments or whatever.
|
|  --
|  JRT

-- 

Best Regards,

Vadim Plessky
SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released
http://svgicons.sourceforge.net


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