On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2006.10.19 00:41 Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Hi Tara, Xprint is in something of a "janitorial" state, so there may > > not be a true expert here to provide the correct answer you're after. > > If you're creating an app to print from, you might want to see if Cairo > > meets your needs. Cairo in a sense supersedes Xprint. > > I remember installing Cairo months ago but it took a lot of work to get it > working and I didn't want to rely on something that seemed to be a work in > progress at that time.
Ok, that's "good" to know. It strengthens the justification for continuing to support Xprint as best we can. > > To help with your troubleshooting, one suggestion might be to print to > > alternate printers, in particular to the PDF > > "printer" (xp_pdf_spooldir). The output pdf file is sent > > to /tmp/Xprintjobs/ (or ~/Xprintjobs/ on Debian). Is the result any > > different that way? You could similarly print to a postscript file and > > see how amenable the output is to the standard postscript utilities. > > Thanks, I produced a PS image and it looked DIFFERENT, I've attached > screen shots if that is okay. And ideas on the color differences? It looks > like a lack of greyness? I tried printing your png using Xprint from firefox, both to postscript and to pdf. In both cases the image came out flawlessly, that is, a red sunset without the blue in your output. I only checked on-screen, I don't have a colour printer readily accessible. > If you want to know the program I'm using to print, it's one I wrote > myself Did you test Xprint using firefox or mozilla? I haven't tried your program yet, but if mozilla/firefox does work for you then I suppose there might be some initialisation call that you need to add. Perhaps looking at the firefox source code might help? If firefox prints blue for you too, then perhaps you could check you've got latest versions, in particular of the config files. For reference, I'm running Debian unstable, using Xprint 1.1.99.3 over X11R7.1 libs. Drew p.s. keep CC:ing the mailing list if you don't mind, in case others experience similar problems _______________________________________________ Xprint mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/xprint
