[open-beos-printing] Re: Updates?

Hi Michael

Michael Pfeiffer schrieb:

2008/8/12 julun <host.haiku@xxxxxx>:


Did
 anyone ever print with an driver based on libprint? I mean to an
 real printer with all available options in use?

PCL5, 6 and PS have been tested by others and me, at least from my
side it was not tested heavily.

I'm just asking because e.g multipage code was so heavily broken in Preview.


IIRC that code was inside an ifdef and was enabled for debugging only.


Ok, thanks. Need to look at the diff then.


You're very quick at proposing to replace things.
Let's assume you want to convert PS to PDF and want to extract links
and the outline from the text in the PS file. For the outline you
define that text in Arial 18 denotes a heading at level 1, Arial 15 a
heading at level 2 and so on. Now you scan the PS page per page and
when ever you reach a line of text with one of the specified font and
size you put it into the outline. Similarly when a text matches a
link, that is for example defines as a regular expression, you mark
the area surrounding the text as a link.
In order to do that you have to parse PS and interpret it.
With the Be API extracting the information from the print job was more
or less a piece of cake, of course there is still room for
improvements.

I don't get what this refers to, especially the replacing part?


You wrote:
I'm not talking about the near future, but i always consider print
server to die at some point in time in favor of cups. And then we
would need it anyway. And i can imagine that there will be an pdf
driver for cups as well?
Now i got it. If you or someone else is willing to maintain it and all it's dependencies, i won't replace it for sure. :) 

Karsten

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