[Bug 192912] Review Request: paps

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Summary: Review Request: paps


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192912





------- Additional Comments From jko at redhat.com  2006-06-15 03:09 EST -------
------- Additional Comments From tagoh at redhat.com  2006-06-12 02:33 EST -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> Main thing that needs to be done before pango-view can be used like paps is to
> make it break text into paragraphs before laying out (for performance reasons.)
>  I'm actually not sure that paps does that.  But anyway, I probably will get to
> doing that sooner or later, but can't make any promise at this point.

I'm not sure that I understood what you mean though, paps splits up each lines
into the paragraphs.

> Ok, what about having a simple shell script called u2ps shipped and advertised
> in Core with a documented command line interface, and make it call paps as the
> implementation for now, but leave it open to switch to pango-view later on... 
> The interface should be quite simple, a cat-like tool with the following options:

It's not a bad idea though, I imagined gnome-u2ps which is on GNOME CVS, but
anyway. I don't know how it is recognized in the world, I at least got confused.
I like a concept to provide a standard interface, otherwise.

> That should be enough for now, and (except for footer?) paps supports the rest
> already, with different namings possibly.

Well, there are some required features from CUPS side too. using this as an
replacement of a commandline printing tool such as a2ps is also one of the way
though, the main thing are to work together on CUPS and to replaces the various
printing filters which is just kept to get CJK printing working as I described
earlier. no particular advantages there.
That is in my todo anyway.

> Another thing that should work in u2ps but is not currently working in paps is
> setting default paper size based on LC_PAPER.  We can make the wrapper figure
> out the paper and pass it to paps for now, and use it to set page size later
> with pango-view.

Ok, it's probably a feature that needs to be implemented.

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