Re: Printing

[tomas]

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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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