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

["Trever L. Adams" <tadams-lists myrealbox com>]

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:53, Chema Celorio wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:40, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:07, Chema Celorio wrote:
> > > 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.
> Gnome-print powered apps can use the gnome-print API to print to a
> number of different backends, I don't feel that we should support
> functionality for an app that is going to generate PS directly. The app
> can generate the output with gnome_print calls, which is really very
> similar to Postscript.
> Yes, but what would we win from this?
> 
> regards,
> Chema
> 
> 
> 

You said it would take a lot of code to be able to get gnome-print to
print out postscript or EPS generated by something else.  I am saying,
write glue to use ghostscript to turn them into images then use
gnome-print to render the image somehow.

I may be wrong, but I think doing what the person wanted to do is much
easier than you think.

Trever