From: dpace
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:17:13 -0500
I competed the first draft of my C code for compiling and running
the gimp-print-gui without gimp. It compiles gimp-print without
libgimp and without libgimpui. Someone needs to modify the
Makefile and offer a new compilation option in the Makefile. My
code is a single .c file. It contains some code grabbed from gimp
because many of the gimp-print Gtk calls where enclosed in Gimp
functions. In the future, it would be nice if the gtk calls didn't
do this.
Did you use the 4.2 code base, or the current 4.3 CVS? The latter is
somewhat cleaner.
Perhaps we should create a libgimpprintui that encapsulates the user
interface code. Some of the code in print.c (which is the
Gimp-specific code) should probably move there, such as the printrc
(which perhaps should now move to $HOME/.gimpprintrc).
My program only prints one simple image format. This could be
expanded. The current format is a file with RGBRGBRGB chars and it
requires the image dimensions to be passed. The arguments to my
executable are for example: gimp-print-gui rgb_image 559 800 where
559 is the height and 800 is the width and gimp-print-gui is my
name for the executable (not just a plug-in for gimp!).
This is certainly something we can work on later. Ideally it should
understand all common formats (TIFF, GIF, PNG, JPEG, and EPS are
likely the most important; XCF may also be important; there are no
doubt others). I'd also really like to make this understand CMYK
images of certain kinds, and in particular 16-bit CMYK and raw
images. However, we don't need to handle all of these initially;
having a simple format for starters is a good idea. Perhaps the right
thing to do is to have these other formats be plug-ins at the
stp_image_t layer.
This program opens up gimp-print to be used as a component for
other software rather than just as a plug-in for gimp.
Yes, it does. This is a step in the direction of a true printing UI.
If you want to add it to your project, then send me the CVS
instructions for submitting it.
Can you get an account on Sourceforge, so I can add you as a developer
to the project? That will give you read/write CVS access. I'd like
Roger, Till, and Mike, at the very least, to take a look at this to
figure out how to fit it in. I'd also like to do it on the 4.3
mainline rather than the 4.2 stable branch.
