Re: [gnome-print] printing a ps or eps file

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:29, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:53, Chema Celorio wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:40, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:07, Chema Celorio wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 10:24, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > > > My app generates graphs in postscript or EPS.  I'd like to offer the
> > > > > user the chance to print these files via gnome-print, but I'm not sure
> > > > > how to use gnome-print when the material to print is already in
> > > > > postscript form.  Any help appreciated.
> > Gnome-print powered apps can use the gnome-print API to print to a
> > number of different backends, I don't feel that we should support
> > functionality for an app that is going to generate PS directly. The app
> > can generate the output with gnome_print calls, which is really very
> > similar to Postscript.
> > Yes, but what would we win from this?
> > 
> > regards,
> > Chema
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> You said it would take a lot of code to be able to get gnome-print to
> print out postscript or EPS generated by something else.  I am saying,
> write glue to use ghostscript to turn them into images then use
> gnome-print to render the image somehow.
> 
> I may be wrong, but I think doing what the person wanted to do is much
> easier than you think.

I still have not been able to understand what is the benefit of this
when he can just use gnome-print to generate the postscript code. What
value does this provide to gnome-print?

regards,
Chema