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-