Re: xprint - why?
Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> writes:
> * Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]:
>> Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread
>> (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it fits
>> in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> I'm probably not alone ;-).
>
> There was a long thread about this a few months back. After reading it
> and the bug reports the only technical reason that I read was that xprt
> did a better job printing glyphs from other languages than the FF/Moz
> default PS engine. After that it seemed to be mostly an anti-north
> american bias by the Firefox maintainer. I don't wish to start a flame
> war, but that was my impression after reading the whole thing.
Err, the mozilla-firefox maintainer is Canadian, so I doubt his
"anti-north american bias" is very strong. ;)
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