Re: Printing

[Leo]

On 2009-04-04 03:44 +0100, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:
[...]
> Here's the patch for the Emacs 23.0.92 pretest (not the trunk HEAD).
>
> * No configure support.  The easiest way would be to compile it with
>   the GTK+ support that is already linked with cairo libs.  Add
>   -DUSE_CAIRO to CFLAGS to activate the cairo code.
>
> * With an experimental function (x-export-frame-image FRAME TYPE), you
>   can get the current FRAME screenshot as a unibyte string in TYPE
>   format.  TYPE can be 'pdf, 'ps, 'png, or 'svg if the installed cairo
>   supports their formats.
>
> * Currently, texts, rectangles (filling and stroking), and trapezoids
>   for reliefs are drawn using cairo by hooking the corresponding
>   drawing routine calls in xterm.c.  They use X11 GC (with extension
>   data) for colors and clipping rectangles, but operations on them can
>   easily be ported to non-X11 (e.g., terminal-only) environments just
>   like the Carbon port.
>
> * Images could also be drawn with cairo, but I didn't do that because
>   the image drawing in xterm.c depends on X-specific data structures.
>   As a result, you can't see any images in the exported screenshot as
>   of now.
>
> * Stipples are ignored (both on screen and exported one).
>
> * Exported png images seem to be incorrect in some cases.  I suspect
>   it has something to do with cairo's cluttering the activated FT_Size
>   mentioned in ftcrfont.c, but I'm not sure.
>
>                                    YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
>                               address@hidden

This is a giant step forward.

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