> From: "Tor Lillqvist" <
tml@...>
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:56:22 +0300
>>> I thought the whole point of the Windows GDI was
>>> that the programmer didn't have to know what the
>>> backend printer and its driver was.
>> Well, first of all because Microsoft came very late
>> to the game of establishing a standard driver
>> interface. [...]
> Xanthian, instead of just talking in general, could
> you give some concrete examples of how one needs to
> take printer model specific quirks into account when
> using the Win32 printing related APIs?
Not likely, 20 years later.
>> [Of course, that kind of failure has long ago been
>> made unnecessary by Posix and other standards.
> Please note that despite POSIX and all, the printing
> interface on various Unixes is far from
> standardized. GTK+ has for Unix two different
> printing backends: cups and lpr. I am sure that
> there are many not that uncommon Unix variants that
> those haven't actually been tested on.
That's not the level at which Posix standardizes.
> --tml
xanthian.
