Subject: Re: ability to not to use gnome print under gnome build
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 02:55:05 CST
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>> gnome-print also has some advantages over plain ps generation, so it
>> would be nice if gnome build provided access to it. And plain ps
>> generation can probably have some advantages over gnome-print (works
>> for CJK and contains fewer bugs).
>
> Gnome print has a *lot* of advantages over our PS generation. Some
> include PDF, Print Preview, better printer support, smaller PS size,
> better looking output.
I haven't looked in the last month or so, but on occasion I have been
caught by abiword's non-WYSIWYG behaviour in printing postscript. The
discrepancies are usually minor, but are as frustrating as, well, a very
frustrating thing.
Presumably this is a difference between definitions of gtk font metrics and
the ps font metrics? Does gnome-print cope better?
Ciao, Frank
Francis James Franklin
<fjf@alinameridon.com>
Diodorus the professor of logic died of shame because he could not at once
solve a problem put to him in jest by Stilpo.
--- Pliny the Elder
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