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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: karbon
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-10-31 15:51:15
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On Thursday 30 October 2003 13:17, Michael Thaler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:11:44PM +0100, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > 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.)
>
> Does scribus use its own postscript generator? Maybe the code from
> scribus can be used?

It is GPL. Any Postscript generator for KDE will finally be in kdelibs, where 
it wouild need to be LGPL (or BSD). (Also I do not know if Scribus handles 
Asian fonts. No idea.)

Otheriwse for GPL only, there would be other ways, for example starting form 
Qt and from GhostScript.

>
> Cheers,
> Michael

Have a nice day!

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