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

[Roland Mainz]

Adam Jackson wrote:
[snip]
> > > My understanding of Xprint is that the invoked lpd (or whatever) is not
> > > scheduled like an X client but is instead treated like an output device.
> > > Which means you can have a situation where the server has a huge chunk of
> > > data (say, a rasterised page of A4 at 600dpi),
> >
> > The Xprint drivers do not rasterise anything[1] in the server. This
> > resembles somehow an item roland collected:
> > http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html#id2807877
> 
> Um.  Then what does the raster driver do?

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).

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Bye,
Roland

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