Re: Printing Postscript Data

[Stefan Kleine Stegemann]

Hi,

> Ok, I suppose you could go that route.  But everything is based on 
> the 
> printing backend setup now, so that has to be taken into 
> consideration.
>
> Both printer backends handle their jobs with PS, but future ones 
> (win32) will 
> likely not.  Something to think about down the road.

I thought about this problem but I don't see any other solution for 
this
problem. This tightly couples ViewPDF to the GNUstep internals which is
not good.

> As far as your situation...it sure would be handy if there was a 
> addition to 
> NSPrinter...  That would solve this problem quickly and easily.  Of 
> course it 
> would be GNUstep specific but what the heck.
> Maybe something like this:
>
> @interface NSPrinter (DirectSpooling)
> +(BOOL)        canPrinterNamed: (NSString*) printerName
>        directlyPrintFileOfType: (NSString*) type;
>
> +(BOOL) directlyPrintFileAtPath: (NSString*) filePath
>                  ofType: (NSString*) type
>          toPrinterNamed: (NsString*) printerName;
>
> -(BOOL) directlyPrintFileAtPath: (NsString*) filePath
>                    ofType: (NSString*) type
>
> +(BOOL) canDirectlyPrintFileOfType: (NSString*) type;
> @end
>
>
> Or something similar
>
> Wouldn't that be nicer?

This would be great. I think it's not a big problem that these methods
are GNUstep specific. If one want's to be portable, simply don't use 
them :-)
Would it be possible to add these methods?

greets and thanks very much
Stefan