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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Questions about printing in KWord?
From:       Dirk_Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de>
Date:       2002-11-21 11:21:05
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> > Or you could send the actual EPS/PS data to the printer, instead of a
> > pre-rendered image.

> The first step to be able to do this, would be to add support for it in
QPrinter...
> (anyone who knows the PS language enough to do that?)

The short term solution could be that you can transfer chunks of arbitrary
Postscript code to the printer.
The long term solution should be a more Postscript like printer/drawing API
(e.g. similar to VPainter in koffice/karbon/render)

If you do the second way, you could convert EPS code to some kind of
internal Meta file format and use it directly.
Conversion form arbitrary EPS to editable / viewable data (via Adobe
Illustrator) is done in koffice/filter/karbon/eps and
koffice/filter/karbon/ai.

But it wouldn't make sense to convert EPS/AI style graphics to the current
QPainter/QImage API. The API is too limited.

Regards
Dirk





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