Re: Printing Postscript Data

[Chad Hardin]

Actually, I rethought this.  This  would be fine if all you wanted to 
do is send the .ps file to the printer.  But you should honor the 
NSPrintInfo stuff as well.  The user may want to configure the print 
job in all sorts of ways:
print out a range of pages,
print out n-page per page
print duplex
scaling, etc etc.

Call you take these NSPrintInfo variables and translate them for xpdf 
so that it will give you the .ps code that will result in the printout 
the user expects?  How will you prevent NSPrintPanel from going through 
with it's NSPrintOperation?
You could use categories to change behaviors of these NSPrint* stuff, 
but you're taking a chance that it may not work later on down the road.

On another note,
Have you considered not using xpdf and writing PDFKit in straight 
AppKit?  That way, rather than relying on xpdf making those images, 
your NSView can draw the stuff just like "normal".

Since xpdf is GPL, you could structure the framework of this 
hypothetical pure GNUstep PDFKIt based on how xpdf is.

Chad


On Aug 6, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Stefan Kleine Stegemann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Ok, I suppose you could go that route.  But everything is based on 
> > the printing backend setup now, so that has to be taken into 
> > consideration.
> > Both printer backends handle their jobs with PS, but future ones 
> > (win32) will likely not.  Something to think about down the road.
>
> I thought about this problem but I don't see any other solution for 
> this
> problem. This tightly couples ViewPDF to the GNUstep internals which is
> not good.
>
> > As far as your situation...it sure would be handy if there was a 
> > addition to NSPrinter...  That would solve this problem quickly and 
> > easily.  Of course it would be GNUstep specific but what the heck.
> > Maybe something like this:
> > @interface NSPrinter (DirectSpooling)
> > +(BOOL)        canPrinterNamed: (NSString*) printerName
> >        directlyPrintFileOfType: (NSString*) type;
> > +(BOOL) directlyPrintFileAtPath: (NSString*) filePath
> >                  ofType: (NSString*) type
> >          toPrinterNamed: (NsString*) printerName;
> > -(BOOL) directlyPrintFileAtPath: (NsString*) filePath
> >                    ofType: (NSString*) type
> > +(BOOL) canDirectlyPrintFileOfType: (NSString*) type;
> > @end
> > Or something similar
> > Wouldn't that be nicer?
>
> This would be great. I think it's not a big problem that these methods
> are GNUstep specific. If one want's to be portable, simply don't use 
> them :-)
> Would it be possible to add these methods?
>
> greets and thanks very much
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
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