[school-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Printmaster in Linux]]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

I received this this morning in reply to a query I sent to 
Andreas about CDox (http://cdox.sourceforge.net).  I am not a 
java coder, and don't currently have the time to become competent 
in java to do this, but I'd like to see it investigated further. 
 Would anyone here be interested in looking into this?--Doug

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Printmaster in Linux]
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:01:05 +0100
From: Andreas Schmitz <cdox@gmx.net>
To: Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>
References: <21895.1043837430@www5.gmx.net>

Doug Loss wrote:
> Andreas,

>    I received this message yesterday.  I've had similar ones
> every while for a year or two now.  I've been looking around
> for anything that might satisfy the need, but haven't found
> anything.  I noticed your CDox, and think it might be
> modifiable into something like this.  What do you think?  Is
> this something you'd be interested in?  If not, would you mind
> some more questions if I can get others interested in using
> CDox as the basis for a PrintMaster "clone" for Linux?  Here's
> the website for PrintMaster: 
<http://expressit.broderbund.com/180_products/181_PM/>

Hi,

it might be possible to use some code from CDox to integrate it 
into such a project, but it might be a bit difficult. Our 
printing quality is quite good, but it is not (yet) designed to 
support variable sizes of paper.

Currently we are working on a C++ version (Windows only) of CDox 
and thus do not have much time left. After this work is done, we 
will probably make a rewrite of the Java version and could 
support more general printing/designing. Also, a general purpose 
.jar library that supports such features is something to think 
of. But until we get to this point, the C++ version will 
definitely need at least half a year to be completed.

Of course we don't mind being asked some specific questions about 
CDox code, if others want to do it (it's Open Source, after all), 
we would even be delighted to see our code quality (im-)prooved 
by another program...

Regards, Andreas

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