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List:       koffice
Subject:    Postscript in QT( was Re: karbon )
From:       "Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion () mpc ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-10-30 16:15:51
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On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:11 am, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:13, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > >>KOffice can convert it back to 72nds of an inch.  I presume
> > >> that it is converting the other dimensions (inches,
> > >> millimeters, etc) to 72nds of an inch before they are passed
> > >> to the Qt PostScript driver.  1200ths shouldn't be any
> > >> different.
> > >
> > > We are limited by integers. So we have to open it in one way or
> > > another first.
> >
> > PostScript files are not limited to integers.
>
> PS not, but Qt's implementation limits. Of course Qt was not meant
> for being a toolkit for DTP applications.

HOWEVER
KDE is surely QT's ultimate expression. As GNU/Linux rise as the 
non-microsoft alternative to desktop - and it is happening faster 
now, KDE will gain market share.

I am tired of seeing the same people that propose GNU/Linux 
automatically coming up with OO - OO is a burden to use when compared 
to Koffice. However, printing shortcomings like this one - loosing 
resolution of all images that are printed from within any KDE app are 
too much of an issue. Even I, when setting up a free-software Desktop 
for third parties put OO as the default application suite.

Moreover, this problem of imaging printing has been there for YEARS. 
Does someone here is aware of how QT itself is developed? Is it an 
inner development in Troll Tech? 

This feature is an absolute MUST for koffice to get serious. If int he 
development of the GIMP (were I am more involved than here - where I 
mostly lurk on the list) we faced such an issue with GTK, we'd press 
the GTK guys to include the feature for us.

In short - I strongly believe that if QT printing engine cannot print 
a raster image at more than 72DPI, that this feature should be 
requested at TrollTech labs, or otherwise implemented by the KDE 
team.

What do you say?


> The best would be to create our own Postscript generator. But, as
> written before, this means that we would have to support all font
> problems and that is not easy (i.e. needs much manpower to do it
> correctly plus developers knowing the subject, especially East
> Asian fonts.)
>
You are quite right!



Regards,
	JS
	-><-

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