Re: Accessibility of Gnome-print Documentation

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

Hello John,

I've filed a bug in bugzilla for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104030

It is not a gnome-print bug it is a bug on one of the tools we use to
create documentation I'll try to track it down and provide a
documentation that lynx can read.

On the other hand, I don't know how useful this documentation will be
for what you want to do, it is documentation of the API more than
anything else, and it is not even complete.

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 11:12, John J. Boyer wrote:
> ...
> people. This requires a special printer which nee`ds bitmap input. I would
...

You might want to look at gnome-print-rbuf.h and gnome-print-rbuf.c
inside the libgnomeprint directory. GnomePrintRbuf is a backend that
renders into a RGB(A) buffer.

I don't know what will be the best way to talk to the printer itself
since we usually give the print document to a spooler like lpr or cups
to deal with it. One way we could do it is to have a
gnome-print-transport that can talk directly to the printer. This is not
ideal since that is not gnome-print's role, the right place to put it
would be as a driver of the print system, say a ghostscript driver and
have gnome-print sent Postscript jobs to it, however getting the
configuration down to the system might prove to be a very hard task to
solve, and even though having the driver downstream will allow you to
print from non-Gnome apps, I'm not sure how much of a benefit it is if
the application is not accessible. Take a look at the documentation and
code and we can discuss it further.

regards,
Chema