Re: Status of Gnome Print

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

[adding gnome-print-list gnome org back to keep a record of the
discussions]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 03:23, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:04, Chema Celorio wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 03:10, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> > > My questions are based on: http://www.levien.com/gnome/print-arch.html
> > > 
> > > Are multiple color spaces (RGB, CMY/CMYK) supported yet?  Can they be
> > > mixed or would say Adobe InDesign need to convert to one?
> > 
> > They are not supported nor there are in the short term plans. The reason
> > for that being is that the document you are referring to was the first
> > design of what gnome-print was going to be. In the recent requests and
> > feedback from app developers and users that I've heard, color spaces
> > have not been brought up. I haven't seen a gnome-print application that
> > would require/use them at this point. But it is something that will get
> > done when the need arises.
> > 
> 
> How quickly do you think you can start getting that done?   I am going
> to begin something like Adobe InDesign very shortly.   The basic code
> won't take too long as I think most of it is more or less done in
> several existing gnome apps and just needs to be brought together.

I have no idea. It is not in the current plans for my tasks. This does
not mean that someone else can do it.

> > The last update i sent about the general direction of gnome-print was a
> > paper I presented at OLS. You can find it here:
> > http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/admin/gnome-print-list
> > 

Sorry, the link should have been:
http://primates.ximian.com/~chema/gnome-print-ols.txt

Chema