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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Display technologies in KDE
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       2000-02-05 16:49:11
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Konrad Wojas wrote:

> 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

That is an API to choose printers, queue jobs, and that kind of things,
not to turn screen graphics into something printable.

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