[xmlroff] Problems building with gnome-print [was Re: Success report, and some comments]

[Steve C. <g3c...@cd...>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Tony Graham wrote:

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

All right, but right now I am having difficulties building the gnome-print
backend, linking errors with many library functions. May be I need a new
version of the libraries.  But:

The "Source" URI of gnome-print on the building xmlroff page is misleading;
it points to the directory for version 2.2 even though version 2.3 (or
later) is claimed to be required.

Tony, I also think it will be helpful if you also post the exact versions
of the packages you use, because if I try the newest version of gnome-print
(2.7.1) it says it needs Pango 1.5, which even if I had it installed,
I would have serious doubts about it working with PangoPDF / xmlroff.

> 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.

Thanks for the information; I will take a closer look some time.

-- 
Steve Cheng
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