> >I may have a Java 2D postscript renderer somewhere which I found online..
I
> >will look at this (it would be a heck of a lot easier than learning 900+
> >pages of postscript and 500+ pages of SVG).
>
> Definitely!
>
> Two points: it turns out that a java2d-to-postscript converter exists in
the linux and
> Solaris versions of the JDK, that's how Java printing on Unix works now.
However there are
> some limitations, as you probably have discovered. Unfortunately for
developers that code is
> not freely modifiable and I don't know if it is included in the "publicly
available" JDK
> sources (it's in the private implementation classes of the JDK). However
that's proof that
> it can be done, and in fact it is not an awful lot of code. As you no
doubt are aware, it's
> much easier to "export" a format than to "import" it generally, since you
usually don't have
> to exploit the whole featureset in order to generate legal PostScript.
>
> A freely available Graphics2D-to-postscript converter (more specifically,
a
> Postscript-generating implementation of the Graphics2D interface) would be
a boon to many
> people, not just Batik users. If you start it I think there will be
plenty of interested
> parties to help enhance it!
Here Here! I am currently working on a reports application that uses PS for
nearly everything and any development in this direction will REALLY be VERY
usefull!!! Any help let me know!
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