Re: printing, cairo, & cups

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Hi Thomas,

On Unix, Gtk+ uses the PS backend, not the image.  The image backend
makes little sense for printing.

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 06:58 -0600, Thomas Stover wrote:
> My main question is this. Somewhere the cairo 
> RGBA color space must be mapped into a printer's device dependent color 
> space such as CMYK. Is this mapping done inside Gtk using info
> resolved from cups, or is this done inside cups with filters?

That's all done in CUPS.

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