Re: [2.4 PDF Problems]

[Martin Kretzschmar <m_kretzschmar gmx net>]

Am Mi, 2003-08-06 um 10.48 schrieb Mike Martin:
>  --- Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net> wrote: > > When it comes to pdf
> viewing 2.4 is going to be a big regression
> > > for users. ggv has dropped pdf support and gpdf can't print pdfs.
> > 
> > Others have noticed the lack of print functionality recently too.
> > 
> > > I think that gpdf needs special permission for late changes.
> > 
> > I am CCing the gpdf maintainer so that he can comment.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117599
> > 
> 

> personally, after reading the bug report and the belief by the
> developer that it is fairly simple (and already being worked on), I
> would think that there would be a good case to break the feature
> freeze in this one case.

It is not that simple. This implementation relies on a patch to
gnome-print that is not going to be in the release. Please give us a day
to see if we can write a workaround for that.

The rest of the implementation is simple. The functions that are used to
draw on the screen (since the first tarball release of gpdf) are reused
to print. The abstraction is provided by libgnomeprint.

Adding the print feature would add (ui-wise) a menu item, the stock
gnome print dialog, and a custom progress dialog with new strings for
the progress dialog and error messages. 

> A contributary factor is that ggv has removed printing support
> apparently, which has had an effect on gpdf which was not expected.

No, it was known that ggv would drop pdf support. It should have been
clear that any ggv feature not in gpdf is a regression for the desktop.

	Martin