[Scribus] Win32 port

[Steven Boothe]

Andreas Vox wrote:
> Paul wrote
> 
>> There is already a port of CUPS for win32. As I've said on my blog,  
>> the, problem I can foresee is that Win32 users would rather stick with 
>> the, mess of a print system than move to CUPS. To that end,  I'll see 
>> what I, can get going natively under Win32. It will be probably the 
>> largest, hurdle to getting Scribus onto Win32.
> 
> 
> What about the Qt port? Do they have any means to send a raw file to the 
> printer?
> Or at least a printer selection dialog?
> 
> Otherwise "copy printfile prn:" should work for PS printers.

After looking around the website at cups.org last night and seeing some 
references to files provided specifically for win32, but not finding any way 
to obtain them, in addition to finding a number of folks whose requests for a 
status going unanswered, I thought I would join the mailing list and inquire 
as well. Here's what I received this morning when I checked my email:

Michael Sweet wrote:
 > Steven Boothe wrote:
 >
 >> I've been looking around the website this evening and notice that all
 >> references to a driver being made available for win32 are almost two
 >> years old???
 >>
 >> Is this initiative dead?
 >
 >
 > No, however 99% of the functionality is provided through the
 > Windows 2000 and Adobe PS drivers, so there is already effectively
 > a solution.  We are still working on the extension modules for the
 > Win2k driver to provide the job-billing and page-label support,
 > however that project is on the back burner until we get CUPS 1.2
 > released.

I thought this may lend some insight as to what exactly is still missing and 
or available at this time for printing support with win32.

Cheers,

Steven