Re: Print preview widget

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:10 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> 
> The main upside to the current approach is that it avoids the
> unacceptably vast memory footprint from libgnomeprintui's preview.
> It would record a stream of drawing cmds _in memory_ and replay them
> for the preview.

If we "print" straight to a cairo_t for the preview widget, drawing
commands won't be recorded.  If we do a PS/PDF/SVG then they are
recorded inside cairo, and emitted when the page is done.

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