RE: [legal?] Any implication in using Harmony's print module in Android?

2010-08-20 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Document rendering can be done via PostScript interface which is already implemented in Harmony - class org.apache.harmony.x.print.Graphics2D2PS. Unfortunately, Graphics2D2PS doesn't fit the Android environment because the latter misses a Graphics2D class. Perhaps it could be eventually

RE: [legal?] Any implication in using Harmony's print module in Android?

2010-08-20 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
I'm not comfortable with Graphics2D2PS, because most printers nowadays Sorry, I meant: I'm not comfortable with PostScript, because most printers nowadays

Re: [legal?] Any implication in using Harmony's print module in Android?

2010-08-19 Thread Andrey Pavlenko
Document rendering can be done via PostScript interface which is already implemented in Harmony - class org.apache.harmony.x.print.Graphics2D2PS. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni giampa...@tomassoni.biz wrote: Document rendering could even use a completely different approach

[legal?] Any implication in using Harmony's print module in Android?

2010-08-18 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Hi everybody. I see Android misses any printing support at all, while it comes with full-fledged networking capabilities (dialup, wifi, bluetooth). This seems quite weird to me, even because porting there (and eventually adapting/extending) the javax.print API module from Harmony won't seem a

Re: [legal?] Any implication in using Harmony's print module in Android?

2010-08-18 Thread Jesse Wilson
Giampaolo, The javax.print has an API dependencyhttp://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/print/ServiceUI.html on Java AWT, which is a desktop windowing UI. This will make it quite difficult to implement the full API on Android. If you only need a narrower API, the job may be

Re: [legal?] Any implication in using Harmony's print module in Android?

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Hindess
In message 000301cb3f26$d0df18a0$729d49...@biz, Giampaolo Tomassoni writes: Hi everybody. I see Android misses any printing support at all, while it comes with full-fledged networking capabilities (dialup, wifi, bluetooth). This seems quite weird to me, even because porting there (and

Re: [legal?] Any implication in using Harmony's print module in Android?

2010-08-18 Thread Tim Ellison
On 19/Aug/2010 01:25, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: So, why nobody did yet do it? I posted a similar question in the Android discuss list, but nobody replied. I'm reluctant to speculate when they chose not to answer for themselves. However, if you look at the manifest for the print.jar you