Re: GPdf uses gnome-print

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 03:54, Martin Kretzschmar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [sorry for that empty mail]
> 
> I have started to write a gnome-print-based frontend for GPdf [1] (cvs
> module gpdf, formerly known as xpdf).  Reading all the messages-of-doom

Great!

> in libgnomeprint(ui) I thought it would be good to let you know that
> another package depends on these libs.

I've removed the message-of-doom from HEAD & the 2.x versions already
;-)

> In http://primates.ximian.com/~chema/gnome-print-ols.txt there's item
> ``G2- Move the print preview to use gsview.'' Is that still a goal?

It is. The reason of moving the print preview somewhere else is to have
less code to maintain inside gnome-print. If gpdf can substitute the
print preview, the better.

I've been meaning to 'outsource' as much of gnome-print as possible, we
no longer have the fontmap code which was the most problematic part of
gnome-print. Font subsetting (and possibly all of font embeding) will be
done with code from OO ('sft' is called), Hidetoshi Tajima sent in a
patch for this already http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95885
which looks very promising.

So yes, it would be great to take the print preview out and outsource it
too, moving the PDL to pdf is also a step forward.

regards,
Chema