Re: [xmlroff] Initial pangogp (GNOME Print) backend

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

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 03:54, Tony Graham wrote:
> I have checked in an initial pass at a GNOME Print backend for
> PangoPDF.  See the CVS link at http://pangopdf.sourceforge.net/.
>
> At this point, the pangogp-to-pdf program in the examples directory
> produces a PDF file.

Thanks - please keep working at this!  Being able to print FO documents using 
GnomePrint will be very useful for the free XML editor I'm working on 
(www.conglomerate.org).  Sorry I can't contribute directly.

Have just had a quick browse through the code.  I have two questions:

(i) Am I right in thinking that this lets you render a PangoLayout to a 
GnomePrintContext, and, in theory, wouldn't require PDFLib? (avoids 
dependencies, and licensing issues)

(ii) Am I right in thinking that the next stage is to have xmlroff implement 
GnomePrint as a FoDoc backend and that this isn't yet implemented?

Thanks (am stuck behind a _really_ slow internet connection so there's a 
limit to what I can download)

Dave Malcolm