# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :
> 1. Printing. ...
> ... My question is then: What is the best way to
> generate a file (postscript, hopefully) which can be saved or sent
> directly to the printer? Is there a device context in Xforms that I've
> missed which can do this? Or do I have to learn to speak postscript?
fl_object_ps_dump() may be of use.
I've also written some functions which will produce Postscript graphs
from xyplot-like input data. There are a couple of things that might
be needed to generalize them completely, but if you want them as a
starting point, you're welcome to them. Say the word and I'll
scrounge them up.
> 2. Fonts. ...
> ... What
> we would like to do is have the fonts automatically be adjusted for the
> given window/screen size. Is this possible using Xforms? Also, would
> that technique follow over into window resizing? (We've got an
> algorithm which sizes the fonts by a percentage based on screen size,
> but we want to automate this for maintainence when we get new devices).
You can get the screen size with some Xlib macro calls --
WidthOfScreen() and HeightOfScreen() -- they willl cough up the
resolution of the screen.
This should give you a good start.
spl
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