Re: Canvas shortcomings

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Mark wrote:

> 
> On 17 Jun 2001, Peter Williams wrote:
>  
> > 
> > I'm no expert, but as I said, my gut feeling is that it would take a
> > long time to teach GTK+ to render in postscript.
> >
> 
> You could probably make a wrapper to make the transition easier, so gtk+
> does not sit directly on postscript but a layer above.
> 

If you really want to do this, try to re-use existing things like say
Xprint (yes, I know it is non-ideal). OTOH I am not really a fan of
teaching the toolkit that level of things, and it would hopefully be
optional.

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>
> Mark
> 

	Sander

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