Re: will this print a plot?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Yanke, Diane" <dyanke coi-world com> writes:
> Will GTK+ create a menu for an operator, allow selections and get values to
> define a plot, plot data, and print it to a color printer?  My data can be
> on the order of 3M color polygons.  I have not seen anything on printing,
> except a mention of canvas, but not how it is done.  I need to plot lines to
> form a grid, text to annotate and colored polygons.  
> 
> What format is it printed in?  Postscript, HPGL?  
> Is it a screen capture print?  I need high quality, fast prints since we do
> a lot of them, hundreds of pages a day.  
> Is there other software which may be better for my application?   

Look at Guppi, http://www.gnome.org/projects/guppi/, it has lots of
useful source code if you're trying to do this.

Havoc