KDE Print porting - help needed

Kurt Pfeifle k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Sat Oct 13 19:23:05 BST 2007


Hans Meine wrote:

>>> In fact, supporting a PDF workflow and supporting printing on non-unix is
>>> the whole reason we no longer use the postscript-only workflow.
>> Reading this sermon again and again starts making me furious.
>> Supporting a PDF workflow does not necessitate to un-support a
>> PostScript workflow.
> 
> Note that he wrote "no longer use the PS-*only* workflow", not "[totally] 
> *un-support* a PS workflow".

Thanks for the correction.

However, I wonder why then Albert's complaint occurs, who stated that
the outlined API will break okular's printing (which is based on out-
putting PostScript), and gets in turn adviced to use bitmapped-based
printing then?

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Kurt Pfeifle
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