In the windose environment there is a big motivation to use GDI.
Applications are already using GDI to put their wyswyg stuff on
the display. They can use exactly the same GDI calls to fill
a dumb framebuffer and send it to the printer.
In Unix, all programs that need to print anything other than plain text
are already doing PostScript. GostScript has the engine
to convert PostScript to a frame buffer. Device drivers in GhostScript
need to do nothing but send the bitmap to the printer.
If you want GDI, you need to write programs that really use it!
> than using other accelerator functions -- just a different way of
> calling them. Depending on how it's implemented, it might not be fast,
> but it could be done.
>
Itai
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Itai Nahshon nahshon@actcom.co.il
Also nahshon@vnet.ibm.com
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