Re: [gnome-print] printing a ps or eps file

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 10:24, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> My app generates graphs in postscript or EPS.  I'd like to offer the
> user the chance to print these files via gnome-print, but I'm not sure
> how to use gnome-print when the material to print is already in
> postscript form.  Any help appreciated.

This is not currently supported and i don't think it will be in the sort
term. It requires a lot of code on our side for a not so important
feature. Even if somebody wrote the code i think we will not add it into
gnome-print, it isn't trivial.

> One other question while I'm at it.  Any idea why Courier 10-point
> should come out unusually light or faint when printing via
> gnome-print?  It looks rather as if the font used is Courier 12-point
> scaled by 5/6 rather than "real" 10-point.  The skeleton of the code
> that produces this effect is as follows:

I don't know. Could you provide as .c file that compiles as a simple
test case? If you do, i'll look into it.

thanks,
Chema

> 
> void myprint (const char *buf)
> {
>     GnomePrinter *printer;
>     GnomePrintContext *pc;
>     GnomeFont *font;
....