indic-computing-users

[Indic-computing-users] Printing Problem

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@hb...>]

Can you give us the status of printing problem of indian scripts in
gnome/kde?  Did you solve this problem fom malayalam?  We are planning
to get this problem solved, so we need to know what is required? 

Nagarjuna

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Re: [Indic-computing-users] Printing Problem

[Sayamindu D. <unm...@So...>]

On =E0=A6=B6=E0=A7=81=E0=A6=95=E0=A7=8D=E0=A6=B0, 2003-07-04 at 18:42, Naga=
rjuna G. wrote:
> Can you give us the status of printing problem of indian scripts in
> gnome/kde?  Did you solve this problem fom malayalam?  We are planning
> to get this problem solved, so we need to know what is required?=20

As far as Bengali is concerned, QT 3.2 based apps are printing Bangla
perfectly.
However, GNOME based applications are not rendering things correctly
while printing. Bspeller
(http://www.bengalinux.org/projects/dictionary/bspeller.php) is a
notable exception.

-sdg-

Re: [Indic-computing-users] Printing Problem

[Pramod.R <pra...@ya...>]

On Friday 04 Jul 2003 6:42 pm, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> Can you give us the status of printing problem of indian scripts in
> gnome/kde?  Did you solve this problem fom malayalam?  We are planning
> to get this problem solved, so we need to know what is required?
Haven't tried this personally, but check this out:
http://pangopdf.sourceforge.net/
> Nagarjuna

Re: [Indic-computing-users] Printing Problem

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@hb...>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:35:56PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> On ???????????????, 2003-07-04 at 18:42, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> > Can you give us the status of printing problem of indian scripts in
> > gnome/kde?  Did you solve this problem fom malayalam?  We are planning
> > to get this problem solved, so we need to know what is required? 
> 
> As far as Bengali is concerned, QT 3.2 based apps are printing Bangla
> perfectly.
> However, GNOME based applications are not rendering things correctly
> while printing. Bspeller
> (http://www.bengalinux.org/projects/dictionary/bspeller.php) is a
> notable exception.

You may have understood already the issue with gnome based
applications.  Since your team has solved the problem with bspeller,
could you tell us what needs to be done in this case (a general
solution) of gnome so that all indian language printing becomes
automatic.

Also can the bspeller approach be generalized so that other indian
languages can also use the same approach for implementing support.  I
will get a team of students who will be working three days a week for
an year.  Would it be possible for you to help them understand the
problem so that they can work on this issue?

Nagarjuna

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Re: [Indic-computing-users] Printing Problem

[Sayamindu D. <unm...@So...>]

On =E0=A6=B0=E0=A6=AC=E0=A6=BF, 2003-07-06 at 10:08, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:35:56PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > On ???????????????, 2003-07-04 at 18:42, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> > > Can you give us the status of printing problem of indian scripts in
> > > gnome/kde?  Did you solve this problem fom malayalam?  We are plannin=
g
> > > to get this problem solved, so we need to know what is required?=20
> >=20
> > As far as Bengali is concerned, QT 3.2 based apps are printing Bangla
> > perfectly.
> > However, GNOME based applications are not rendering things correctly
> > while printing. Bspeller
> > (http://www.bengalinux.org/projects/dictionary/bspeller.php) is a
> > notable exception.
>=20
> You may have understood already the issue with gnome based
> applications.  Since your team has solved the problem with bspeller,
> could you tell us what needs to be done in this case (a general
> solution) of gnome so that all indian language printing becomes
> automatic.
>=20
> Also can the bspeller approach be generalized so that other indian
> languages can also use the same approach for implementing support.  I
> will get a team of students who will be working three days a week for
> an year.  Would it be possible for you to help them understand the
> problem so that they can work on this issue?

As far as I understand, the GNOME printing system does not handle the
text layout/rendering itself. The printing application has to send the
text to print in a pre-rendered/pre-formatted way.=20
I do not know if I am making sense, but IMO, the best person to comment
on this would be Taneem Ahmed (CC-ed) who is the developer of the
bspeller package.

-sayamindu-

Re: [Indic-computing-users] Printing Problem

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@hb...>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:18:01AM +0530, Pramod.R wrote:
> On Friday 04 Jul 2003 6:42 pm, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> > Can you give us the status of printing problem of indian scripts in
> > gnome/kde?  Did you solve this problem fom malayalam?  We are planning
> > to get this problem solved, so we need to know what is required?
> Haven't tried this personally, but check this out:
> http://pangopdf.sourceforge.net/

When pangopdf gets integrated with pango and gnome printing, would our
problem of printing indic languages solved?  Is this the way gnome
team is trying to solve the problem?

Nagarjuna

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Re: [Indic-computing-users] Printing Problem

[Arun M <ar...@fr...>]

> When pangopdf gets integrated with pango and gnome printing, would our
> problem of printing indic languages solved?  Is this the way gnome
> team is trying to solve the problem?

No, from the earlier mail exchanges with gnome-print maintainer I learn
that the plan is to integrate Pango with gnome-print before gnome 2.4
release.

Arun.