[cups.general] Replacing XPrint interfaces with CUPS

[Michael R Sweet]

No, since you won't have any way to generate the print data - that's  
what the Xp stuff does for the X11/Xt/Motif stack.

If the printing requirements are simple enough, you can probably just  
use Cairo to generate PDF for printing, and then just port the  
printing drawing code to use it instead. Feed the Cairo-generated  
print file through cupsPrintFile...

On Apr 17, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Thanks. The interfaces are actually in openMotif, and I don't think
> tying openMotif to GNOME or KDE for printing is an approach that is
> feasible. Is there a way to get the functionality of these cassl  
> working
> by using CUPS APIs?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> Michael R Sweet wrote:
>> Robert Schweikert wrote:
>>
>>> In an effort to make some code LSB compliant it is necessary to  
>>> replace
>>> XPrint interfaces used by the code with CUPS interfaces, since  
>>> CUPS is
>>> part of the LSB. I would appreciate any help anyone can provide  
>>> for the
>>> following list of interfaces (replacement API's to use, potential
>>> approaches if there is no direct replacement, pointers to  
>>> documentation
>>> etc.). I have little knowledge about what it takes to print  
>>> something,
>>> thus any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Here is the list of interfaces:
>>>
>>> XpQueryExtension
>>> XpGetPageDimensions
>>> XpGetPdmStartParams
>>> XpGetOneAttribute
>>> XpSelectInput
>>> XpGetDocumentData
>>> XpGetContext
>>> XpEndPage
>>> XpStartPage
>>> XpEndJob
>>> XpGetScreenOfContext
>>> XpSetImageResolution
>>>
>>
>> Most of these relate to printing with X11 calls; while you can get
>> some of the information (page dimensions come from the PPD file for
>> a printer), I highly recommend using one of the toolkits (GNOME or
>> Qt) instead of direct X11 calls for printing.
>>
>>
>
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer