[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 15576] [GTK] Printing support

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Mon Nov 19 04:14:49 PST 2007


http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15576





------- Comment #1 from alp at atoker.com  2007-11-19 04:14 PDT -------
Created an attachment (id=17396)
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Initial printing support, WIP

This is the start of printing support.

It adds one public entry point, webkit_frame_print(), and also adds support for
launching print jobs from within pages.

You need a recent version of Cairo to get high-quality PDF output with
selectable text and vector graphics -- older versions rasterize the entire
document.

Still TODO:

Calculate page rects. Add support for more than just the first page.

Disable font hinting when in print mode. This problem needs to be dealt with
for features like text scaling in other places too.

API: Decide whether webkit_frame_print() is correct -- I just made it up. Do we
want a function on WebKitPage as well/instead? Do we want this to be
overridable in subclasses? Thoughts welcome.


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