Re: Problem with preview and the blocking print dialog

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 17:42 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> I'm implementing the preview code in gtkprint.  I have decided to use an
> external helper (default is evince) to do print preview.  The idea was
> to write out to a pdf in /tmp and launch the external helper when the
> user hits the preview button.

<ignorant>

Why do we have an external helper?

Gnome-print would save everything to its own internal metafile, and then
it would spit it to a gnome-canvas.  Could we make Cairo just render
everything to a preview window?

</ignorant>

  Federico