Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> Wouter asked:
>> > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
>> > > This library isn't truly abandoned by upstream, but essentially it's not
>> > > getting any new development. Cairo is considered the way forward and xprint
>> > > is widely (though not universally) considered a broken implementation.
>> >
>> > Just out of curiosity, could you point me to arguments in favour of
>> > Xprint?
>>
>> http://www.dailynews.co.th/
>>
>> QED
>
> Err. You're saying Xprint is the only print implementation that can
> print non-latin stuff properly and reliably?
On my system, Xprint never printed anything from Firefox, it just
cluttered the printer list and moved the working (CUPS) queues to the
bottom. Fortunately, it's now disabled in 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-2bpo1. The
CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript
printer.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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