Re: Printing Architecture Ideas

[Federico Mena <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  I mostly agree.  I also belive it would be worth I time to modify gnu
>  ghostscript (work with gnu people on this) to allow better plug in print
>  drivers.  It would be nice to have a plug in system so that you don't have to
>  recompile ghostscript when you want to add a print driver.  

It should not be too hard to modify Ghostscript to support driver
plug-ins in the form of shared libraries.  You can steal Gnome's code (or
Guile's code, for that matter) to do dynamic linking on different
platforms.  It would be a very useful addition.

>  Also we should probally develope a metafile type system for GNOME apps.

What would this be useful for?

  Quartic