Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Printing on Linux

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Moir wrote:
> Alex said
>
> > Actually that's not quite true. We do output gradfills as a 
> > postscript procedure. It's in essence a sequence of clipped 
> > rectangles.
>
> That's good. Suggests it should be quite easy to replace that procedure
> with one that output proper grad fills.
>
> If all the fill types have a PS procedure that would be great. I think
> Gavin said that all existing fill types can be done in a vector
> (resolution independent) way in Postscript now.

Yes they do. I believe the way postscript dictionaries work we
could make the fill do X on one interpreter and Y on another. But
this would require someone with some postscript knowledge
(i.e. not me) to fix it :-)

Alex