"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:


> It may be worth revisiting the design of this plugin as more platforms
> implement the thing.  I kinda liked the idea of having just two
> primitives: printForm: and printPostscript:, but then again I'm biased
> since none of the other primitives make any sense in a generic Unix
> setup, anyway.
One useful trick we haven't used yet in implementing host facilities is
decent bridge classes. Combine them with the ability to make completely
different plugins (with identical, similar or quite different apis) and
it isn't hard to have a printer driver for Macs using umpty-gazillion
calls and a unix driver using a single #printThisDangPSFile.

tim
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