Re: [2.4 PDF Problems]

[Martin Kretzschmar <m_kretzschmar gmx net>]

Hi,

Am Mi, 2003-08-06 um 11.44 schrieb Martin Kretzschmar:
[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.

I've attached a patch to the bug which implements printing for gpdf
HEAD. The implementation is the same as in Xpdf, but with a gnome print
dialog. The print progress dialog is not yet implemented, but the glade
file is attached to the bug. (Printing the 1100 pages PDF spec to a file
takes 2 minutes on my box, that makes the progress dialog necessary).

I would like to get approval for the print feature.

Changes:

> 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.

There are 5 new strings in the code, 2 new strings in the glade file for
the progress dialog.

Codewise that patch bumps the requirements from libgnomeprint 2.2 to
libgnomeprint 2.3.0 (needs new function introduced in February). It
wasn't clear to me yesterday that GNOME 2.4 might ship with
libgnomeprint 2.2.

	Martin