[xmlroff] GnomePrint as a possible xmlroff backend

[Dave M. <da...@da...>]

Hi

I'm considering adding xmlroff support to a Gnome application I'm working on 
(www.conglomerate.org).

I'm wondering if there are any plans to support the GnomePrint API within 
xmlroff, perhaps as an alternative backend to the PDFlib backend?  As far as 
I can tell, it would involve refactoring FoDoc into an abstract base class, 
with the current implementation as a subclass (FoDocPDF?), with another 
subclass talking to a GnomePrintContext (FoDocGnomePrint?).

This should enable us to get nice Gnome-ified print preview dialogs etc, and 
hopefully we could then make both backends optional (my users are likely to 
have GnomePrint installed, but not the PDFlib and PangoPDF libs).

What do you think of this idea?  Is it worth me hacking a patch together?

Thanks in advance
Dave Malcolm