Re: Some 2.6 thinking

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> The FSG's papi api with existing wrapper to ipp/cups seems like a
> good target for 'how to get the spool files to a printier'.
> Unfortunately cairo's postscript backend is not exactly useful just
> yet.  It currently rasterizes then ships the result as postscript ...
> Beyond making for really large files, it also precludes doing smart
> filtering ala gimp-print.
>  
This is because simple postscript isn't expressive enough for some of 
Cairo's operations.

Other programs that use the PDF 1.4 imaging model also end up 
rasterising bits of the output due to limitations of PostScript, so it 
is not without precedent.  It is true that some improvements could be 
made, since other programs only rasterise the portions of the page that 
can't be described with PostScript.  I don't know if Carl is working on 
this bit though.

James.

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