Re: GnomePrint : Its time for some autumn cleaning

[Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar freedomink org>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:55:34 -0400
Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> wrote:

> Thanks to the wonderful folk at Ximian I'm going to get a chance to
> start picking up the slack in libgnomeprint* and get development
> kicked back into gear.  
> 
> After some discussion with Chema I've joined the MAINTAINERS file,
> and started reviewing some pending patches.  As you've probably
> noticed the trees have been branched and there is now a :
> 
>     WARNING
> 	This is the _development_ branch, and currently requires
> 	unreleased versions of gtk+ out of CVS.
> 
> to HEAD.  Please note that I do not claim to know my way around the
> tree from an implementation perspective as yet.  Hopefully, that
> will change quickly.  Given the current state of the tree we've got
> our work cut out for us.  Some of the topics that seem high on the
> priority list are :
>     - merge in Ximian's cups work
>     - improve integration with fontconfig and pango

 there are printing issues for Indic scripts , basically CTL (complex
text layout) languages.
Right now at the most we can get is just unicode chars getting printed
in sequence, would above integration with fontconfig & pango
fix/improve it?

Related bug for this is
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102809

a log of some testing i did in gedit.
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php?IndicGnomePrinting

Regards,
Karunakar

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