[PLUG] "Portland" in the news

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Thu Jun 29 17:06:06 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 02:26 -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Ronald Chmara
> # on Thursday 29 June 2006 02:09 am:
> 
> > If an app wants to bring up a "print"
> >window, it shouldn't have to care what UI it has.
> 
> inkscape can run whatever program you want for printing.  I like to have 
> a nice preview of the postscript.  Now if I could only get mozilla and 
> everything else to do that by setting my preference in one place.
> 
> ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml
> ...
>      org.inkscape.print.ps.destination="| kghostview -" />

I think the current trend is towards a library layer to implement
printing.  It's not terribly unusual for applications to need more
control over printing than is reasonable with a command-pipe.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd
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