On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen B wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Let me also extend an offer to help with general development off-hours, if
> you're willing to work with GPL libs for open development.
> ...
Thanks for the offer. But you haven't said what Print Wizard features you
want, exactly.
Let me give you the scope of things. I just did a full build of
printwiz.exe; that is, just the main program that does all the dirty work.
It's 550,432 lines of code! It has a PCL reader, a PDF writer, a PDF
reader (coming soon), graphics file input routines (some purchased), an
interface to Windows faxing, Windows sockets, and Windows scanning, SSL,
CDO, MAPI, SMTP, the Windows spooler, FTP, HTTP, and Windows printer
drivers (yes, we do use those for most printing output). It has some user
interface, notably the print previewer, but not a lot. It can read files
in formats PCL-5, PCL-6 (some), JPG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, EMF, SPL, TXT, PWML,
HTML, PDF, Unicode, and more. It deals with input and output of TrueType
fonts and does fine-grained manipulation on them. It prints in most world
languages.
And it's not in C, it's in Delphi.
Now if you're interested in a very small subset of its capabilities, there
might be hope. Several years ago I ported it to Kylix, which is the Linux
equivalent of Delphi. I restricted it WAY down to just outputting PDF
files. It was moderately painful. More to the point, it was dependent on
Kylix and several libraries it used, which I think even today would be
less stable and future-proof than Windows. I don't know if Kylix is
currently supported.
Then there's the question of the business case. It would have to generate
some serious revenue. I won't go into numbers at this point, but I have a
long to-do list.
So what do you need, and what's it worth to you?
Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.
personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com
company e-mail: r...@anzio.com
voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
fax: (US) 503-624-0760
web: http://www.anzio.com
street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
Portland, OR 97223 USA
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