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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QPainter and multi-component beziers
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-03-10 14:12:42
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The problem is that we cannot get rid of QPainter too fast or how would you 
print out a KWord document?

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Monday 10 March 2003 14:01, Dirk Schönberger wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> Unfortunately the operator sets for KPainter and QPainter are different.
> To prduce Postscript output, I could either start a PostscriptPaintDevice,
> i.e. generating pure Postscript, or a QPainterPaintDevice, i.e. generating
> QPainter calls, which are later printed.
> I like the PostscriptPaintDevice approach better.
>
> Regards
> Dirk
>
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