[Gnome-print] [Fwd: Gnome printing issues]

[Chema Celorio <chema celorio com>]

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• From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>
• To: Robert L Krawitz <rlk alum mit edu>
• Cc: chema celorio com, raph acm org, gnome-hackers nuclecu unam mx
• Subject: Re: Gnome printing issues
• Date: 11 Sep 2000 20:59:40 -0400

> I don't remember any discussion about labels, and I'm not sure what
> you're talking about.  If you're talking about captioning pictures,
> that would actually be useful, and that may belong in the print plugin
> (maybe not).  More on that below.  The issue isn't about interest in
> *programs* that do or don't print bitmaps, it's specifically about
> where we are in the food chain.  See below.

The issue is that even when we can just generate a huge bitmap, pass
the bitmap to the driver, and then let the driver generate the
commands for the printer, this is extremely inneficient for many
printers.

If you are just printing with the default fonts (say, times/12), it
makes more sense to ask the printer to set the text out in the printer
font times/12 at x,y rather than dumping a bitmap.  This shows for
large text documents.

Miguel.

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