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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QPainter and multi-component beziers
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-03-08 23:34:50
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On Saturday 08 March 2003 23:55, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On sam, 2003-03-08 at 23:25, Dirk Schönberger wrote:
(...)
> > > 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.
>
> This does not help multiplatform application, so I'll stay with
> home-brewn rendering ;-)
>
> > For print, I agree - if you don't want to create a Postscript output from
> > scratch.
>
> Well, but this does not solve the problem, I am dealing with (or
> does it? - I am really dumb with KDE). I want sodipodi to pick up
> whatever native printing subsystem (libgnomeprint under gnome,
> KDE print under KDE, Windows GDI under win32) - either compile-time
> or better yet, as loadable module. Not sure about KDE, but neither
> libgnomeprint nor windows GDI accept postscript input - so I have
> to implement custom output code anyways.

QT does not allow PostScript input either. (That is one of our biggest 
problems in KOffice.)

>
> Btw, I got KDEPrint frontend to work, using bitmap input, so
> I think I can go some time with this :-)
>
> Best wishes,
> Lauris Kaplinski

Have a nice day/evening/night!

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