Re: gnome-print and GnomeCanvas

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

[ On using the same display context for both graphics and printing ]

> At a minimum, I'm surprised that the gnome-print architecture doesn't
> use the same API as GnomeCanvas.  The GnomeCanvas was designed with a
> lovely postscript-like drawing API.  Why must gnome-print implement a
> yet *another* lovely postscript-like API?  Why aren't they the same?

My plans for the printing architecture including providing a
Gnome-Print-like API for the GnomeCanvas, so applications that dump
information to the printer could use that same information to dump to
the screen.

The GNOME print API is different from the Canvas API as they were
designed to attack two different problems.  

Miguel.
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