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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Display technologies in KDE
From:       Konrad Wojas <wojas () vvtp ! tn ! tudelft ! nl>
Date:       2000-02-05 22:47:32
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:07:16PM +0100, Dirk Schönberger wrote:
> For the question about gnome-print <-> QPrinter, I would something like
> gnome-print, but with Qt classes, e.g. (with suffix K for KDE and AA for
> anti-alias...)
> 
> KAAPainter, KAAPaintDevice, KAAMetafile, KAAPrinter, KAAImage.
> 
> In the base version KAAPrinter would send normal PS codes to a printer.
> Until we really need alpha-channel images or such, we don't need our own
> printer driver sub-system,
> perhaps we can print to KAAImage and output this on a printer?

Corel is working on an open source printing API for Unix, take a look
at:

http://opensource.corel.com/printlib.html

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