Re: status of gr_UnixPangoGraphics (ABIMATH)

From: Daniel Glassey <danglassey-abi_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue Dec 07 2004 - 20:28:40 CET

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 09:26 -0800, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi Tomas,
>
> > Thanks. I will pick up working on the pango graphics
> > where Daniel
> > left; he did quite a lot of work already, so this
> > should be doable
> > for 2.4 as long as we can print what we can display.
>
> Gnome Print has a Pango printing interface which is
> probably a *great* idea for us to use. Gnumeric uses
> it and I believe that GEdit does as well.
>
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libgnomeprint/libgnomeprint/gnome-print-pango.h?rev=1.3&view=markup
>
> Best,
> Dom

yep, looks like the wtg for printing - afair PangoLayouts don't scale
well for entering text (try gedit with long paragraphs) but it should be
ok for a single run for printing.

Regards,
Daniel
Received on Tue Dec 7 20:26:13 2004

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