Re: Bad mozilla/Xprint interactions on Debian homepage: decisions needed
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Parsons, Drew wrote:
> If you believe Xprint is born screwed, can you suggest a better alternative
> for printing web pages in an alphabet other than latin? Are you aware there
Sure. A fixed Xprint.
Here's what it would take, AFAIK:
1. Generate non-DPI-dependant PS. Include all bitmaps in their native
resolution, and scale them to the printing DPI on the fly. Do it using
a proper algorithm, at least trilinear interpolation, if this is not
natively supported by PS (I don't know PS very well).
2. Do not convert *anything* to bitmaps. If it arrived as vector
operations, put it inside the PS file as vector operations.
3. Plug to CUPSYS properly, in a way that the full range of CUPSYS options
*especially PPDs, printing classes and printer instances* work. Yes, this
means a proper GUI hook somehow. The worst issue with Xprint is it lameass
idea of trying to get us to write yet another set of printer definitions, in
a mostly undocumented format, even.
If the fact that the above could sometimes produce slow/big PS files, add a
"fast low-q mode" switch that will work if one can tell Xprint what DPI to use".
Either that or fix Xprint to ask CUPS *after PPD processing* what the DPI
should be, and give it a default DPI (I think this is already in Xprint) for
PS file output.
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Please drop this crap.
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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