Re: Updates?

2008/8/12 julun <[email protected]>:

>>> Did
>>>  anyone ever print with an driver based on libprint? I mean to an
>>>  real printer with all available options in use?
>>
>> PCL5, 6 and PS have been tested by others and me, at least from my
>> side it was not tested heavily.
>
> I'm just asking because e.g multipage code was so heavily broken in Preview.

IIRC that code was inside an ifdef and was enabled for debugging only.

>> You're very quick at proposing to replace things.
>> Let's assume you want to convert PS to PDF and want to extract links
>> and the outline from the text in the PS file. For the outline you
>> define that text in Arial 18 denotes a heading at level 1, Arial 15 a
>> heading at level 2 and so on. Now you scan the PS page per page and
>> when ever you reach a line of text with one of the specified font and
>> size you put it into the outline. Similarly when a text matches a
>> link, that is for example defines as a regular expression, you mark
>> the area surrounding the text as a link.
>> In order to do that you have to parse PS and interpret it.
>> With the Be API extracting the information from the print job was more
>> or less a piece of cake, of course there is still room for
>> improvements.
>
> I don't get what this refers to, especially the replacing part?

You wrote:
I'm not talking about the near future, but i always consider print
server to die at some point in time in favor of cups. And then we
would need it anyway. And i can imagine that there will be an pdf
driver for cups as well?

- Michael