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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Display technologies in KDE
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       2000-02-03 15:20:02
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> > Hmm,.. I am getting the impression that GNOME does the better marketing.
> > Please tell me the advantage of using gnome-print instead of QPrinter?
> 
> Well, they do get antialiased output on PCL printers, that ghostscript
> does not, but that should really be fixed on ghostscript instead of on all
> printing architectures, since the rasterizer DOES support antialiasing (as
> you can see on screen)

Getting antialiased output on non ps printers is definetely not the job of
the desktop environment!

BTW: Did every anyone measure the performance of the GNOME canvas approach
across the net?

Regards,
Regards,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Stauffenbergstr. 107, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany  //   
KDE:  The most advanced GUI for a reliable OS.

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