Re: [Gnome-print] bugs and features

[Adrian Feiguin <feiguin magnet fsu edu>]

On 4 Oct 2001, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Sorry for late reply.
>

It never is too late ;-)
Thank you for the answer. I'm using gnome-print-0.29. Maybe your bugfix
still need some adjustments?

Another question: gnome-canvas/libart don't antalias fonts/pixmaps, do
them? At leat gnome-canvas-text/image don't seem to have any special code
to do it.

Thanks!
<ADRIAN>

> On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 22:44, Adrian Feiguin wrote:
> > Hi, I'm working on the implementation of gnome-print preview for
> > Scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net), toghether with
> > antialiasing using libart. I found that in the gnome-print preview there
> > are some "leaks", as you can see in the snapshots I prepared:
> > http://magnet.fsu.edu/~feiguin/scigraphica/images/antialias.jpg and
> > http://magnet.fsu.edu/~feiguin/scigraphica/images/preview.jpg . I know
> > that libart has this "leak" problem but I wonder why I see it in
> > gnome-print-preview and not in my libart rendering.
>
> Which version of gnome-print you are using?
> Leak is known libart bug, but latest gnome-prints try to overcome that
> by perturbing vpaths.
>
> >  By the way, you can
> > see that this is a "landscape" view. I couldn't find any obvious way to
> > choose the paper size in gnome-print for this situation, and you can
> > notice the offset in the screenshot: I am using "US-Letter" paper size,
> > and althouhg I render as landscape, the preview sets the default view
> >  (paper/canvas size) as "portrait".
>
> Use gnome_print_master_preview. Although not ideal, it allows a little
> bit more flexibility.
>
> >  On the other hand I can't get gnome_font_new_closest to work correctly.
> > For instance, "Symbol" gives me all rectangles in the preview. What are
> > the font names allowed? I'm using the postscript default family names:
> > "Times-Roman", "Helvetica", "Courier", "Bookman", .. etc. and I can't get
> > bold or italics. Hints, please?
> >  Thanks!
> > <ADRIAN>
>
> You can get font names with gnome_font_list and family names with
> gnome_font_family_list methods.
> Fonts usable are defined in $datadir/fonts/fontmap(2) file. Gnome-print
> tries to find fonts installed on your system, but may fail, in whihc
> case may not have std. postScript fonts available.
> If you compile gnome-print by hand, try:
>
> tests/testprint4 --preview some_text_file_name
>
> It shows you font dialog, where you can examine available fonts. If
> there is no Helvetica, times and such, fontmap installation went wrong.
>
> Symbol shows empty squares most probably because gnome-print expects
> utf-8 strings. Adobe has allocated unicode values for all glyphs in
> both Symbol and Dingbats fonts, so you have to encode those into
> utf-8.
>
> Best wishes,
> Lauris Kaplinski
>
>
>
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