Re: [xmlroff] Success report, and some comments

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Steve Cheng <g3c...@cd...> wrote at Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:13:29 -0400:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Steve Cheng wrote:
> 
> > I don't use RPM, but does that work?  I mean,
> > doesn't the xmlroff building page say that you need to patch GNOME Print
> > to use PangoPDF?
> 
> Some observations:
> 
> 1. The building xmlroff page says there are directions to patch GNOME print
>    in the xmlroff distribution, but I didn't find any.  Maybe I'm dumb.

There used to be.  It's the patching that turned out to be dumb.

> 2. I sincerely hope that I can tell the patched GNOME print to build
>    libraries with a separate name so as to not clobber the system GNOME print.

Don't patch.

The instructions need to be removed.

> 3. The PangoPDF home page have the wrong versions listed as current.

It will be updated (eventually).

> 4. Just what is really different/new in PangoPDF from regular Pango?
>    I'm using Pango myself right now for a project I'm working on,
>    despite the lack of tutorial documentation it was a breeze to use,
>    so I can't imagine it would be that hard to have the new functionality
>    go in the main Pango :)

The PDFlib backend would never go in because of PDFlib's license.  I
didn't realise that when I started.

Pango and GNOME Print work together better than they ever used to,
possibly in part due to my enhancement request [1], which is why I'm
hopeful about the current Pango obviating much of PangoPDF.

The extra PangoAttributes could be submitted to Pango if they're
cooked enough.  I quite like the callback attribute, myself, but it's
only had one limited use, and that is in the wrong backend.

Regards,


Tony.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125762