[Sugar-devel] Status of printing support?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 15:21, Daniel Castelo
<dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> I haven't made any relevant progress in this feature. As I said in my last
> email, I don't know if community has reached a concensus about this feature.

With gtk-print we could quite easily print from Read and produce PDFs
from most activities (the ones that use cairo).

Any reason for not going this path?

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
> <vamsi.davuluri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry about the long hiatus. I Had to go places for my
>> thesis; almost done with Engg. school.
>>
>> Daniel, would be nice if you can update me with what
>> you've worked out on. I will be free full time, and will
>> definitely work on integrating it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vamsi
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Daniel Castelo
>> <dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have spoken with the developers of the GoSC [1] Andres Ambrois and
>>> Vamsi Krishna Davuluri about this topic, some time ago I've spoken with
>>> Tomeu too. I have read the discussion about this topic on the list [2] and I
>>> am not sure if the community has a consensus about the solution.
>>>
>>> About GoSC, I have tested the Print activity and works fine.
>>>
>>> I've wrote a new wiki page about this feature, with the goal of separate
>>> the work done on GoSC and the feature that we want in Sugar [3].  A solution
>>> could be add an option to the journal to print some types of entries. Here
>>> in Uruguay the first goal is to bring the possibility of print using a local
>>> printer.
>>>
>>> I know that Vamsi wants to work on this feature, and obviously me too.
>>>
>>>
>>> Finally, sorry for the delay!
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2009/Print_Support
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-April/013921.html
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-May/014166.html
>>>
>>> [3]
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Print_Support
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
>>> <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> since a teacher at the Austrian pilot project asked whether Sugar would
>>>> support printing in the forseeable I was wondering what the current status
>>>> in this area was?
>>>>
>>>> Last time I checked (back in August) the GSoC project hadn't evolved
>>>> beyond a very early prototype that I personally couldn't get to run. Looking
>>>> around the mailing list and the wiki I couldn't find any updated information
>>>> so is it safe to assume that little to no progress has been made in that
>>>> area? Or did I simply miss something?
>>>>
>>>> Also I remember Daniel from Plan Ceibal talking about the desire to make
>>>> that happen based on demands from Uruguay.
>>>>
>>>> @Daniel, any news from South America when it comes to this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Christoph
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>>> co-editor, olpcnews
>>>> url: www.olpcnews.com
>>>> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ing. Daniel Castelo
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>>> Avda. Italia 6201
>>> Montevideo - Uruguay.
>>> Tel.: 601.57.73 Interno 2228
>>> E-mail : dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy
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> Ing. Daniel Castelo
> Plan Ceibal - Área Técnica
> Avda. Italia 6201
> Montevideo - Uruguay.
> Tel.: 601.57.73 Interno 2228
> E-mail : dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy
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