On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 02:56 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
OK, but what does it get from Inkscape - PS, bitmap, anything else? If (as I suspect) it's always bitmap, is it possible in principle to combine the native dialog with an _option_ to print via PS? Or PS printing on Windows does not work at all?
Sorry for probably stupid questions, I never used printing before...
Okay, yeah, I think we're talking at each other but not really understanding each other. Let me step back a little bit.
The printing extension interface is basically a simple renderer interface. Things like setting styles and paths. There are several extensions that implement this interface: PS, PDF-Cairo, Win32 and GNOME-Print. Each of these can take the document and write it to the renderer that it uses. So when printing is done in Win32 the document is "rendered" onto the Win32 print driver directly.
The print direct button was there so that you could always use the PS renderer to create a postscript file. This was largely intended to work around buggy or incomplete drivers that may be default for certain builds. Also, you could use it to create PS files. I don't think we need this anymore as it is more intuitive to "Save As..." PS and then print the file if you wanted to work around the Win32 print driver.
Does that make sense?
--Ted