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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Display technologies in KDE
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       2000-02-02 13:11:58
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Koch wrote:

> Am Wed, 02 Feb 2000 schrieb Roberto Alsina:
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> > 
> > > Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ... 
> > > > 
> > > > As far as I can see, this only means that Libart can produce any graphic
> > > > postscript can, and then some. It's radically different from something
> > > > like display postscript (or in Quartz, display PDF), where you actually
> > > > feed postscript code to the display engine.
> > > 
> > >   I think that you are right.
> > >   But going back to my original question, do you know of something
> > > similar
> > > for KDE ? If there isn't anything like it in KDE, what are the
> > > perspectives
> > > of adding one ?
> > 
> > Similar to what? To the GNOME canvas, yes, QCanvas is similar.
> > To display postscript or quartz? Probably not.
> 
> For viewing Postscript we have the KGhostView-Part.

There are differences between just viewing postscript and having something
like display postscript. Just imagine a GUI that draws everything at
kghostview speeds and you'll get the idea.

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