Re: A few quick questions about gtkprint

[Vamsi Krishna Davuluri <vamsi davuluri gmail com>]

Oh, the thing is sugar has bindings for the evince classes, which we use as
import modules.
And I will look into it for modules on printing.
Thanks for your time.
If you are on the #gtk+, can you tell me your nick, so I can ping you live
when I am in a glitch :p

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:48:18 +0530
> Vamsi Krishna Davuluri <vamsi davuluri gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you again!
> > Here is the code I was talking about; my code pretty much does the
> > job of printing .txt files and related mime types,
> > http://pastebin.be/17838
> > But I would love to see your code as well.
> >
> > Our Read activity (sugar apps are called activities) supports a
> > plethora of formats (let me just check how it draws on screen), okay
> > it uses the evince library, meaning I should be able to draw to a
> > Cairo context right? as the underlying lower level implementation
> > would be cairo if I am not mistaken? (let me make sure that too). Yep
> > evince uses poppler for pdf, and that cairo as backends.
>
> Mine for text is here:
>
> http://efax-gtk.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/efax-gtk/efax-gtk/src/utils/text_print_manager.h
>
> http://efax-gtk.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/efax-gtk/efax-gtk/src/utils/text_print_manager.cpp
>
> The guts of it are similar to yours, although it has more twiddly bits.
>
> I do not know anything about OLPC/sugar, so I do not completely
> understand all your comments about evince, since evince is a
> postscript/pdf display application, rather than a library.  The
> libraries it uses are as I recall, although it is some time since I
> looked, poppler, libspectre and libgs.  If evince is the main display
> application for sugar, though, then it already comes equipped with
> printing via gtk-print, for which purpose it uses poppler/cairo and in
> recent versions libspectre/cairo (I think).
>
> Chris