From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 10:34:08 EDT
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 07:23, Richard Poole wrote:
> > --- Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi
> > Joe,
> > >
> > > You could accomplish this using wvWare, but it would
> > > be a royal
> > > pain-in-the-ass to do so. What I would suggest is
> > > something like the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > 1) Go check out my other project, AbiWord
> > > (www.abisource.com) and subscribe
> > > to the developer list.
> > > 2) Check out the 'GR_Graphics' class and become
> > > famliliar with it
> > > 3) Become familiar with libpng/libjpeg/libtiff/...
> > > 4) Write a GR_Graphics class that uses one or more
> > > of the above libraries.
> > > It shouldn't be too hard.
> > > 5) Call 'print' to effectively print your document
> > > to a series of images
>
> Wouldn't it be even easier to use the existing mechanisms in AbiWord
> to print PostScript, then use ghostscript to convert to whatever
> raster format you wanted? No new code at all required.
You could do that too. I really don't care how this gets done, or even
if it gets done. Basically, all our Graphics class is anyway is a PS
abstraction layer anyway.
If I had to do this without involving ghostscript, I'd probably use
ImageMagick++'s Drawable and Image classes to do all of the dirty-work.
-- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Tue Jun 11 2002 - 10:35:37 EDT