libkdeprint

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts 16 Octubre 2007, Kevin Krammer va escriure:
> On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Alex Merry wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 Oct 2007, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 16. October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > From what Pino said so far I guess they let poppler do the
> > > > rendering and fetch a pixmap to be displayed in okular's viewport.
> > > > And of course using that pixmap for printing will produce bad
> > > > results.
> > >
> > > Given that oKular can zoom pretty close, I assume that poppler can
> > > produce arbitrarily sized renderings? Such as, renderings with a
> > > resolution that matches those of printers?
> > >
> > > Sure, printing whole-page images will be slow as hell... but it would
> > > work.
> >
> > It could be a solution.  It wouldn't be ideal, because really we want to
> > send a document with fonts and text to the printer, rather than just an
> > image (you can do this with QPrinter/QPainter, as far as I can tell,
> > but the external libraries don't have any way of providing the
> > necessary information to do so).
>
> Well, printing pixmaps can't be that bad, otherwise it would be pretty
> impossible to print images from image manipulation programs.
>
> In the long run it will probably be better to extend poppler such that it
> can use a QPainter and thus also render to a QPrinter.

And after that person that does not exist and has heaps of time available to 
lose implements a PDF renderer using QPainter will you convince him to 
implement PS and DjVu QPainter based renderers too?

Albert

>
> Cheers,
> Kevin