Re: Printing

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:38 AM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 04 May 2012 23:06:43 -0400, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> said:
>
>> Hi, I'd be interested to see this pushed further.  Maybe you could
>> make a branch in the bzr repository for it?
>
> Perhaps I'll work a bit locally first, starting with adding a new type
> of (output-only) graphical terminal for printing.  The idea is to add
> a printing support via cairo without being tied with a particular
> window system.
>
> Is anyone already working for supporting multiple types of graphical
> terminals simultaneously?

Is Cairo enough to make a general printing system? Should not the
abstraction be on a higher level so that different OS:es can be
supported?