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[gtk-list] Re: GTK Printing/X6.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (owt1@cornell.edu)
Mon Jul 7 12:27:36 1997
From: owt1@cornell.edu
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 12:27:19 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Adam D. Moss wrote:
> Jay Painter writes:
> > I mentioned printing with GTK a while back, and I was told that X6.3
> > supported postscript printing. I have been unable to find any docs on
> > the X6.3 printing, could somebody clue me in?
>
> I've been looking for such docs too. (This seems to be an
> ever-repeating problem with the XC / X/Open: it's VERY difficult or
> even impossible to find online documentation or examples for their
> newest extentions and goodies).
In general, a good place to look for documentation on X things
is in the xc/doc/hardcopy directory of the source distribution.
In this case, look at:
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3/untarred/xc/doc/hardcopy/XPRINT/
(or the equivalent location in the X11R6.3 tree)
I took a look at this a while ago, and my initial reaction was
that apps would probably be better off just writing code to
emit raw postscript. You have to jump through a lot of hoops
to use the print server, and what you want on paper isn't usually
exactly what you have on screen.
Regards,
Owen
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