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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QPainter and multi-component beziers
From:       Michael Goffioul <goffioul () imec ! be>
Date:       2003-03-10 10:20:04
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> > I think the real problem is that KPrinter and friends not allowing custom
> > Postscript generators.
> > If this wasn't so, you could plugin your own Postscript generator.
> > This alone would rather make WYSIWIG work rather problematic, because your
> > print output would become more capable than your screen output, because
> > screen could only handley by QPainter.
> > KPainter tries to solve this problem by making a more capable API available
> > for screen and print.

I just had a quick look at kpainter and this looks very promising.
This is the still missing piece in a full KDE printing system: a
flexible rendering engine. I think that the KPainter/KPaintDevice
combination with KPrinter in between could provide a very powerful
system. At first, you probably can still use QPrinter as rendering
engine to produce PS, but in the future you can imagine to use our
own PS generator as well as other format generator like PDF for
example.

Michael.

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