On 30-Oct-2013 13:37, Martin Owens wrote:
On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 13:14 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
As mentioned above, it's worse than just the clipping, you can probably find a ton of bugs in our tracker related to printing.
Should we disable printing? It would make sure that people export as pdf and can see what they'd be getting. Is there any advantage over a pdf print to direct inkscape printing?
If it is broken we should fix the printing. Users generally expect that they can print whatever they see before them on the work surface of a program.
Can somebody give a brief description of the print subsystem? I can't think of a reason why clipping wouldn't work, as it generates (ultimately) postscript output for postscript printers, and postscript does support clipping. Transparency is another kettle of fish. Presumably any sort of transparency on a vector object is going to force a conversion to a bitmap and that, rather than the original vector objects, is sent to the printer.
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