[Bug 192912] Review Request: paps

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Summary: Review Request: paps


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192912





------- Additional Comments From jko at redhat.com  2006-06-15 03:05 EST -------
------- Additional Comments From tagoh at redhat.com  2006-06-12 01:03 EST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> Just a note that most (if not all) of the code in libpaps.c is essentially
> deprecated now that cairo has PS/PDF backends being enabled for FC6.  It should
> be a matter of a weekend's work to get someone write a paps-like a2ps
> replacement using pangocairo.
> 
> This can be fixed later of course, and the upstream author already knows about
> this and may in fact do it himself.

Yes, upstream is aware of that.

>                                      My other concern with paps as it stands now
> is its command line interface that we have to keep if we push it into Core. 
> Instead of --fontscale and --family for example, it should have a single --font
> that takes a Pango font description.

It sounds good. let me push it to upstream then.

> Such a tool can be included in Pango upstream in fact.

Not as an example? it would be nice if it will continues to be maintained.

> If there's no strong reason for having paps or a similar tool in Core for FC6, I
> suggest postponing this and working on the replacement tool.

We are focusing to improve the CIJK handling of the text printing and paps was a
better candidate at that time - this was being developed since PS/PDF backend
for cairo was experimental or before that, which wasn't relied on - We have
decided to work on paps because it may be close to become successful at RHEL5
timeframe so that the improvement of CIJK text printing is our goal for RHEL5.
plus, we have no enough time to make an another replacement from scratch so that
FC6t1 will be coming soon.

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