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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QPainter and multi-component beziers
From:       Dirk_Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de>
Date:       2003-03-08 21:25:02
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> > Well there is karbon14. A IMHO more generalized module of a Postscript
like
> > rendering
> > model you can find in kdenonbeta/kpainter. This is a rather young
project
> > with many missing features. The idea is that you can implement your own
> > paint devices which do the actual rendering.
> > Currently only a libart based paint device is implemented.

> And KPrint will use this in future, I suppose...

If there is a need for KPainter, and if there exist a Postscript output
device, I see no big technical difficulties...

> > Not quite. Karbon14 uses libart based rendering, i.e. rendering to
bitmap.
> > There exist a QPainter based rendering, but this only implements
wire-frame,
> > i.e. no filled paths.

> I see. So bitmap is currently the only option - this is mostly
> OK (after all bitmap is the only way to get guaranteed 99.99%
> identical printout). My basic concern are people wanting to print
> A0/A1 posters.

For screen display using X you could check out Xr/Xc and the XRENDER
extension.
For print, I agree - if you don't want to create a Postscript output from
scratch.

Regards
Dirk


 
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