[Xprint] Application printing using Xprint

Julien Lafon julien.lafon at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 17:39:39 EDT 2005


On 4/23/05, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> Additionally you didn't wait for print job completion which
> may lead to a race condition - depending on the time the finalisation
> needed you may not get a print job delivered to the printer (I've seen
> that with Hitatchis Xprint server where the OpenGL engine runs in a
> seperate thread and therefore the GL rendering may complete async to the
> main server rendering).
Is it always required for the application to wait for the print
events? The GL thing was a bug in the SGI code which triggered the GL
scene rendering sporadically after XpEndPage and before the next page.

Julien
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Julien Lafon
Senior Staff Engineer, Hitachi


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