[sylpheed:30530] Re: Sylpheed 2.3.0beta6 released

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:58:07 -0600
Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at highstream.net> wrote:

> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Sylpheed 2.3.0beta6 (development) has been released.
> >
> >    * The new printing function was implemented.
> >          o Each page is now rendered by the Cairo graphic engine.
> >          o The native print dialog is used.
> >          o Page number is printed for each page.
> >          o The option "Use external program for printing" was added.
> >          o The printing of MIME part was implemented.
> 
> Hiro, thanks for working on the Print function.  The printout is
> definitely more readable now.  I would say, though, that layout has
> gone from being scrunched together to fairly big print with lots of
> space between the characters and lines, lots of the page used, as if
> it's a screen shot of what I see with New Courier 12 in the display
> settings (arial in the headers, serif font in the body).  From using
> one-half a tree to using two, so to speak ;-). Where does the Cairo
> engine get its font and layout settings? I'm wondering if there's a
> happy medium or more flexibility possible.  Thanks. 

Currently the font size is hard-coded as 12pt, and the line spacing is
2pt (I was lazy ;)) The font family is taken from the setting of Common
prefs - Display - General - Text font. Of course these have to be
configurable.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>