Re: High level layout API for gnome print

[Will Newton <wnewton cmedltd com>]

On Friday 24 Oct 2003 11:50, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:38:11AM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> > Is there any high level API built on top of gnome print to do document
> > layout? I am currently evaluating gnome print for printing reports and
> > forms from our system.
>
> I'm not clear what you mean.  Can you provide an example ?

We need to do some reports of various things - database metrics, etc. For this 
it would be good to be able to do tables, centering and justification. We've 
looked at various layout languages like LaTeX, XSL-FO and Docbook, but none 
of them seem to really be flexible enough.

We also have a requirement to be able to print some of our on screen forms, 
which are built from glade and rendered by GTK. Would this be possible to do 
easily? 

Maybe pulling a GdkImage out of the on screen window and printing that as a 
bitmap would be plausible?