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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-23 20:52:28


Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> * David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> [2004-12-22 15:13]:
>> Reece Dunn wrote:
>>
>> >> If I were to go to the trouble to create an GUI that rendered
>> >> diagrams, I'd probably to to the touble to print those diagrams.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to use the same algorithm to render to the screen and
>> >> to the printer, simply swap out the device context.
>> >
>> > The Microsoft MFC library takes this approach and, IMHO, it is the best
>> > way to go.
>>
>> That's okay for simple things, but for any serious printing work you
>> need to know you're talking to a printer. For example, you may need to
>> embed postscript in your output stream.
>
> I'd like to look at how OS X is able to make a PDF of everything.
> Observing that capability lead me to believe that you could
> simply swap out the underlying device.

Maybe on OSX, where IIUC everything is already DPS-based, you can do
something like that. In my experience with the models used by Windows
and MacOS 9 and earlier, it doesn't work out that way.

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