On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:33 +0100, Sven de Marothy wrote: > Hi, > I'm hacking a bit on GNU Classpath, the free Java runtime effort, and > progress has been very good recently. (about 200k lines of code so far > this year!) > > However, one of the missing pieces left for us is printing. Now, our AWT > implementation is currently built on Gnome and Pango, so this is where > gnome-print comes in. > > The Java API allows for native printing dialogs to be used, so obviously > this is something we'd like. However, Java uses the Java2D imaging model > both for on-screen drawing and printing. > > The java2d model is relatively advanced, with support for compositing > and so on, and our current implementation of that part for on-screen > drawing uses Cairo. > > I wrote a bit fuller description of the current situation on our > mailing-list: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-11/msg00077.html > > Basically, we'd like to have Cairo integrated with gnome-print. If I've > understood it correctly (and please, correct me if I'm wrong) the > long-term plan for gnome-print is in this direction too? Long term plan is libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui go away, and the print dialog moves to GTK+. Regards, Owen
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