Hi Mark, Thanks for your email.
> Apologies for delay in replying. I wanted to refresh my memory of the > wxWidgets printing framework before replying, but I still > have not found > the time. No probs. > My original thoughts on finding an existing wxPdfDocument > installation > or building a new installation were to copy the methods of > Alien::wxWidgets. However, I now think it would be better to copy the > approach used by Ahmad Zawawi for Wx::Scintilla - always build > wxPdfDocument with Wx::PdfDocument. That way it makes it much > simpler to > co-ordinate updates etc. I'm not clear how either would work, so I don't have an opinion. > As a general approach for an implementation within > Wx::PdfDocument, I'm > not sure really. Amending the richtextprint.cpp/.h in the wxWidgets > build isn't really an option for us (unless it is something > we could get > accepted upstream - which seems unlikely given it is wxPdfDocument > specific) Is there, or could we not have, a compile option (like the OpenGL one) which says if wxPdfDocument is installed or not? > Maintaining and > updating our own entire copy of richtextprint.cpp seems unattractive. I agree. I also agree with the braod thrust of your implementation approach. I'll look at in more detail when I get a moment. > If you have no objection, I'll write to Mark Wardell and ask > if I can be > added to list of Wx::PdfDocument maintainers to get a first > implementation out. Please do. Regards Steve
