Re: Mesa 6.5 Development Release
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:58:55PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> The Xprint server has OpenGL support which is switched by identifying
> the mesa source. I'm not entirely certain what it's for, I presume
> it's for grabbing a snapshot of the current GL image in a window, for
> sending to a printer.
It uses the software rasterizer to render widgets with associated
OpenGL contexts. It basically compiles the entire rasterizer into the
Xprint server. It doesn't actually "grab" a snapshot of the current
image, it renders it from scratch.
Marcelo
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