Re: Gnome-Print, StarOffice and Mozilla

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Chema,

Thanks for your suggestions. I am looking at Omni now, and it seems 
promising.

John

On 30 Jan 2003, Chema Celorio wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:14, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Do StarOffice and mozilla use Gnome-print? Do they have to be guilt 
> > specifically to do so? My driver must be able to handle printing for both 
> > these applications.
> 
> Neither StarOffice nor Mozilla uses gnome-print. I've heard rumors of
> someone working on porting Galeon to use gnome-print which sound very
> promising as I'm getting patches for libgnomeprint to make it possible,
> so Galeon might be soon (3-6 months).
> 
> I've thought more about your driver and believe that gnome-print might
> not be the right level place to hook it up. We've moved away from
> thinking that hooking drivers to gnome-print directly is the way to go.
> You should probably write a OMNI or a ghostscript driver for it, that
> gnome-print can use (as it does other drivers).
> 
> Now, it is also true that hooking directly to gnome-print has advantages
> for configuration since GNOME is accessible, but it might still not be
> the right place. Have you considered making a driver for OMNI-print?
> http://www-124.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/
> 
> regards,
> Chema
> 
> 
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