libkdeprint

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 Oct 2007, Tom Albers wrote:

> > I've a simple question. Isn't there a possibility for QPrinter to
> > simply accept a ps or pdf blob and deal with that?
>
> No.  The reason for that is that would require QPrinter to be a PDF/PS
> renderer (it's cross-platform, and you can't just throw a PDF or PS
> file at the Windows print system).

What is the main difference between rendering a PDF or PS on-screen and 
rendering it on a printer?

I mean the PDF viewers can already display a PDF file on one kind of 
QPaintDevice, so there must be some difference I am overlooking.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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