> I have looked at all of your Printing support on BeOS, I have an idea > that if we together could make a different Printing support on BeOS. I > have develop my BePrint addons, which intends to help to expand Printing > support under BeOS, by grouping some functions which most of printer > addons needs such as JobSetup, Page setup, Printer setup and Spooling > from the spool file to buffer routines, which will then cut down the > development time of printing addons under BeOS, It's a great contribution, and I think your work would be highly appreciate by OpenBeOS Print Kit team (I am one of them, btw). A quick look at code let me think adding a Preview driver to OpenBeOS print kit could be easy and quick, too. > unfortunately I have a > lag of time to completing it, it now missing only Spooling from the > spoolfile to buffer routine, I'm not sure what you mean by "spoofile to buffer routine". Did you mean some kind of built-in raster engine, pushing "spoollines" to buffer, ready to be eaten by the end driver addon, like my own PageRenderer() / ScanLine() I wrote for BubbleJet driver internal raster engine? It would be great to have such a raster engine ready to use, yes, which would help cut down developping time all raster-based print drivers. But keep in mind that not all "printer" driver works in raster mode, for example PCL5-6, PostScript or our (now OpenBeOS's) PDF Writer works in vector mode (read directly from BPictures contents), not in raster mode. > I am > asking your guys to help to complete this software and develop your > printer addon with this software, I think your PrintLib could be a great starting point for a better (and newer!) OpenBeOS / BeOS libprint.so library, offering built-in most-wanted features for drivers writers. It will take time to rewrite open sourced BeOS print drivers with this new libprint.so... For a start, I've forwarded your message to OpenBeOS Print Kit mailing-list. Feel free to join us at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=open-beos-printing, btw! > we might then able to support more > printer and make BeOS more attractive to non BeOS users to then try out > and use our BeOS. Hey, it's exactly OpenBeOS Print Kit team mantra!!! :-) -Philippe Houdoin ----- Forwarded message from Rompo Punyanitya <rpunyani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:18:26 +1100 From: Rompo Punyanitya <rpunyani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: Rompo Punyanitya <rpunyani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Contribution on Printing supoort to BeOS To: philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx,max@xxxxxxxxx,hiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,freston@xxxxxxxxxxx Dear all of you, BeOS programmers I have looked at all of your Printing support on BeOS, I have an idea that if we together could make a different Printing support on BeOS. I have develop my BePrint addons, which intends to help to expand Printing support under BeOS, by grouping some functions which most of printer addons needs such as JobSetup, Page setup, Printer setup and Spooling from the spool file to buffer routines, which will then cut down the development time of printing addons under BeOS, unfortunately I have a lag of time to completing it, it now missing only Spooling from the spoolfile to buffer routine, This BePrint is not the same one that listed on BeBits website, This BePrint is also an opensource, I am asking your guys to help to complete this software and develop your printer addon with this software, we might then able to support more printer and make BeOS more attractive to non BeOS users to then try out and use our BeOS. The software and source can be found at www.users.bigpond.net.au/rpunyani/BePrint.html Thank you. ----- End forwarded message -----