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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Task for people wanting better printing
From:       Tomasz Grobelny <grotk () poczta ! onet ! pl>
Date:       2003-11-05 20:24:44
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On Wednesday 05 of November 2003 12:48, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:44, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> > Hmmm,
> >
> > Maybe we will have to pick up the "let's generate our own postscript"
> > thread again.
> >
> > I wish I could have said purely as a joke, but I mean it seriously.
> > A rough postscript printing with western fonts + vector graphics  +
> > raster images, that would account for a lot of Kofffice
> > functionalities would not be _that_  hard to do. And even somewhat
> > crude support could look better than current QT printing, if
> > trolltech will continue to behave as all Troll, no Tech on this
> > issue.
>
> If you do; then I suggest to do so inside of Qt; after a discussion with
> them on where and how..
> I doubt they will say no to a good Qt Printing facility...
Integrating new Postscript generator with Qt is not that easy. Basically there 
are two concepts:
1. Print what is shown on screen. That means good screen output as a result of 
using screen font metrics. But in this case metrics are not precise. This 
method is implemented in Qt.
2. Render image device independent and then map it to the output device. This 
means using font metrics that are not pixel aligned and thus text at small 
sizes will not look that good. This method _should_ be implemented in 
KOffice.

Tomek

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