Re: [Gnome-print] Pango and gnome-print
- From: Tony Graham <Tony Graham ireland sun com>
- To: gnome-print ximian org
- Subject: Re: [Gnome-print] Pango and gnome-print
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:59:00 +0100 (BST)
Lauris Kaplinski wrote at 2 Jun 2001 00:18:22 +0200:
> On 01 Jun 2001 18:03:39 +0100, Tony Graham wrote:
...
> > >From what I have read in the mail archives, I can't work out why Pango
> > is being described as one day being used inside gnome-print as if
> > Pango isn't being used by other programs.
...
> > I'm probably splitting hairs, and it may be exactly what Lauris means,
> > but if your application is concerned with how much goes on the page,
> > you just want to worry about the size of the text block, not how to
> > translate that into terms that the print system understands. Since
> > Pango already has multiple rendering contexts, it would be useful if
> > gnome-print didn't add another one.
>
> Agreed. But we need rendering context, suitable for multi-resolution.
Pango has two: one based on FreeType 2, and one based on XFT (which is
based on FreeType).
...
> But - until XRender is not ubiquitious, it will be major pain
> to establish any screen-printer consistency here :(
I didn't say that I wanted screen-printer consistency.
If, before I print, I use Pango to work out the extents of a block of
text that I want to place on a page, and if gnome-print eventually
uses Pango to work where to place the glyphs representing that text,
why can't I cut out the second use of Pango (and/or save having to
build glyphlists) and just pass the Pango layout to gnome-print?
Regards,
Tony Graham
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