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Re: Printing
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tomas |
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Re: Printing |
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Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:08:22 +0200 |
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:14:59AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[...]
> > What other way to print are you thinking of?
>
> The way every modern platform does that: through a printer API,
> whereby you select fonts and layout, then render text to some device,
[...]
Hm. I know that's the modern "trend", but I am unconvinced that it is in
the end a Good Thing. Implement all those interfaces for
$rendering_system_du_jour (GTK, QT, Windows 32, whatever) instead of
going for one more or less abstract (Postscript, PDF), well-documented
and widely implemented?
What next: implement the virtual file systems on the graphics toolkit?
Oh, wait...
(sorry if it sounds too ranty: it isn't personal. But watching all the
desktop environments implement things which belong to other layers of
the system is painful, especially in the Free Software context).
Regards
- -- tomás
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- Re: Printing, (continued)
- Re: Printing, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/06
- Re: Printing, Kenichi Handa, 2009/04/06
- Re: Printing, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/06
- Re: Printing, Kenichi Handa, 2009/04/06
- Re: Printing, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/06
- Future of display engine [Re: Printing], Kenichi Handa, 2009/04/07
- Re: Future of display engine [Re: Printing], YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/07
- Re: Printing, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/07
- Re: Printing, Kenichi Handa, 2009/04/07
- Re: Printing, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/04/19
Re: Printing,
tomas <=
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, tomas, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Samuel Bronson, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Óscar Fuentes, 2009/04/02
- Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/02
Re: Printing, Lennart Borgman, 2009/04/02
Re: Printing, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/02