Re: Updates?

Hi Michael

Michael Pfeiffer schrieb:
> 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.

Ok, thanks. Need to look at the diff then.

>>> 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?

Now i got it. If you or someone else is willing to maintain it 
and all it's dependencies, i won't replace it for sure.  :)

Karsten