[Sugar-devel] print support proposal up and running!(uses moodle)

[Vamsi Krishna Davuluri]

Ah yes, thanks for pointing  it out for me! I hadn't given critical thought
about avoiding the client-server cups setup. Case is its not even required,
as the server will be having the printer (or if some other machine, I will
just write code which configures it to the network printer on the server i
mean) when received approve, a nice php script would print to the specified
file on the server.
We wont be requiring any drivers on the client just driver for one virtual
cups-pdf! the dependencies and all come to max 1 mb. Just checked.

http://sophie.zarb.org/srpm/Fedora,10,/cups-pdf/deps

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
> <vamsi.davuluri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What cups-pdf does is it has the ability to print a pdf from any mime
> type
> > associated with cups mime.types. As opposed to what the abiword api does
> > (draw the screen to graphic objects and export to pdf) . So this is
> really
> > an asset!
>
> Ah, ok, that does sound good and worthwhile, specially if you can
> avoid the client-server setup which you won't want, and the big
> footprint of all the cups drivers for a bazillion printers (perhaps
> that's well isolated in the foomatic packages already? i dunno).
>
>
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