Re: Another GSoC Success - the Cairo Graphics class

> Can you you look at that Dom? I wrote a "CairoPrintDirectly"
> EditMethod for this purpose but it isn't hooked up properly because I
> haven't taken the time to work out exactly what you need it to do.

Thanks for doing this, Martin. I hadn't planned to hook up cairo to
the command-line printing infrastructure in the 2.7 series. In fact,
I'd planned to gut it.

Cairo will give us high-quality results. I've already hooked up the PS
and PDF exporters to use the Cairo graphics class. And since my libgsf
work, we can send output directly to stdout.

So, I'd planned on removing the command-line printing infrastructure
in favor of something like:

AbiWord --to=pdf --to-name=fd://1 | lpr -pPrinterName

It's less code to maintain, gives the users more power, and fits
better with the Unix philosophy.

Cheers,
Dom
Received on Mon Jan 5 02:33:18 2009