On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:47:37AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Drew! > > You wrote: > > > The first appearance of a functioning Xprint server (xprt-xprintorg, soon to > > appear in a Debian mirror near you...) ;-) > > What is an Xprint server? > From my control file: "Xprint" is an advanced printing system which enables X11 applications to use devices like printers, FAX or create documents in formats like PostScript, PDF, PCL, etc. . This package provides Xprt, the Xprint server compiled from xprint.mozdev.org. This version supersedes the version from XFree86 (package xprt), which is buggy and does not work with mozilla. This version provides full support for printing from mozilla, including non-latin characters and MathML. . Note that TrueType font support is not currently available in Xprint. ---- In other words, it's a printing system that uses the X API, facilitating the possibility of "true" WYSIWYG - printing on paper exactly (more or less) as it appears on screen. Its real utility for me is with mozilla. I've got some HTML pages styled up just-so with CSS, mozilla renders them fine on screen, the print-preview works fine. But when you try to print to paper using Mozilla's default postscript driver (up to v1.0, I haven't tested v1.1), it fails with various problems. For instance, it tends to print non-latin letters as boxes, and stuffs up CSS styling (sans-serif gets printed as serif). Xprint fixes these problems, and also lets you print MathML, the HTML-like means of writing mathematics. I've just uploaded the new package, so hopefully Those In Charge will be happy to add it to the archives for general distribution. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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