Re: Gtk Printing and evince

["Dominic Lachowicz" <domlachowicz gmail com>]

Hi Carlos,

> In evince we have the document pages already rendered, so can I take the
> pixbuf of the page and create a cairo surface from it and use it in
> draw_page signal? I don't know if this is the right way to do it.

Unless rendered at a high resolution, the output will probably look
pretty ugly and be much larger than strictly necessary. Since poppler
has a Cairo rendering backend and the GtkPrintContext pipeline is
built around cairo, it'd probably be better to do something like this
pseudo-code:

cairo_t = gtk_print_context_get_cairo(context)
for page in document.pages:
 poppler_page_render(page, cairo_t)

Best,
Dom
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