[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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