Re: Peace Everybody (Postscript???)

[chayim <chayim i kirshen home com>]

Since I've sparked this debate I guess I should give a bit more background, then you
guys might have a way of assisting me.
    My program will interface with the kde addressbook to enable the quick and
simple creation of receipts (i.e. for us computer consultants out there).  Other
then the graphic design I haven't figured it all out (and by graphic design I mean
thank G-D for Glade).
    Anyways it will produce a bill, and that bill must be printed.  This part leads
me to the question.  If the bill is in a popup window how would I print it?  I was
thinking of trying to run a screen-capture utility on the window rect(location) and
then it would already be in postscript.  Unfortunately this is only of use for
people with the specific screen capture utility, and since I use KDE... X11 and
Gnome people may use a different util.  Then again, in the spirit of open-source I
could maybe use it and give credit.

Chayim

Christian Wendt wrote:

>
> Iīd favour a render-the-contents-of-the-window-to-paper-using-a-ps-subsystem
> , perhaps now in a paper-oriented layout and not screen-oriented...
>
> The results should be MUCH better, the mentioned 72dpi of the screen donīt
> fit to the 300,600 or even 1200dpi a printer has got... (esp. the text would
> be ugly or tiny - i assume)
>
> Sadly, i donīt know of any PostScript rendering subsystems - Gnome is
> working on a concept AFAIK (GnomePrinter ?)...
>
> but appart from that - anyone?
>
> HTH,
> Tschö,
>  Chris
>
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> Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
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