2013/2/25 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:30:54PM +0100, Marcel Weiher wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2013, at 15:06 , David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:25:37AM +0100, Marcel Weiher wrote:
>> >> On Feb 25, 2013, at 0:57 , David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >>> [..]
>> >>> None of this (including the Postscript encoding) is used in Squeak now, and
>> >>> I don't see any usage as far back as Squeak 3.6 either.
>>
>> >> Sounds about right.  Has PS/PDF/printed output been removed completely or is there an alternative?
>> >
>> > Postscript printing is supported. Any morph can be saved to Postscript or
>> > EPS file for printing
>>
>> OK, I was confused for a bit, but as far as I can tell the Postscript support that is in 4.3 is still the one I implemented way back when, which includes the PostscriptEncoder and that's a subclass of ByteEncoder (Via PrintableEncoder).   FlattenEncoder -> ByteEncoder -> PostscriptEncoder -> PostscriptEncoderToDisk, and the Postscript Encoders are used by the Postscript Canvas.     ByteEncoder is in  "MorphicExtras-Postscript Filters", so if you nuke that entire category, you would appear to also nuke Postscript support.
>>
>
> D'oh! Yes of course you are right. I overlooked that PrintableEncoder
> has subclasses. Thank you.
>
> So there may be some unreferenced classes and methods, but "MorphicExtras-Postscript Filters"
> definitely is required.
>

Great, that confirms my own analyze.
But the parallel hierarchy PrintEncoder StoreEncoder and
PropertyListEncoder are presumably not used, and were just experiments
right?

If yes, we should remove the printOnStream: storeOnStream:, and can't
remember last filterMethod (propertyListOn: ?)

>
>> Speaking of which, I remember having to hack quite a bit of nasty code because text was actually not going through the canvas but implemented back in BitBlit, which then forwarded a bitmap to the Canvas.  Has that been fixed?
>>
>
> I really don't know. Maybe someone else can answer?
>

In a better world, the answer should be given by some SUnit TestCase...

Nicolas

> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>