[Xprint] Re: Unified video+print Xserver / was: Re:Modularization mailing list and initial strawman proposal

[Egbert Eich]

Roland Mainz writes:
 > 
 > See my other reply to this thread - it's doing rasterizing in the
 > Xserver (as the decision whether vector data or bitmap data are
 > generated is up to the print DDX). However it doesn't really harm
 > anything since the RASTER driver operates at low resolution monocrome
 > (1bit StaticGray) visuals (originally it was written as test
 > implementation and can still be used for old matrix printers, but beyond
 > that point I don't see much use for it).
 > 

There exists an unfortunate misconception of Xprint that stems from 
the pure existence of the raster driver. 
Therefore it cannot be stressed enough that the raster driver was
written for a proof of concept implementation and (unfortunately)
survived in the code.
The raster driver argument always gets in the way if the real 
arguments pro/con Xprint.

Egbert.