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2 Jul 2024 23:25:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: the color printing question again  
From: LibraryMan
Date: 20 Dec 2002 15:06:31
Message: <3E037841.CB5C09CF@att.net>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> LibraryMan wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I still think it's kind of odd that no one from the POV team has
> > commented on this issue definitively--
> > or at least a faithful user who's tracked POV-win since (its) birth!
> 
> I think you have a somewhat strange understanding of priorities here.
> This might seem an extremely useful feature for you but maybe you should
> have spent a bit more time on trying ABX's suggestions.
> 
> Let me formulate it this way: There are a real lot of high quality tools
> nicely printing HTML so it is a very efficient approach to have a
> customizable converter for POV-SDL code to HTML and leave the printing to
> a different program.  I wonder if you even tried Ingo's povsdl2html.  It
> is highly customizeable with style sheets and you have a WYSIWYG preview
> in the Browser - implementing such things inside the POV-Ray IDE (and this
> on several platforms) would be a real lot of work the POV-Team could
> better spend on other things.
> 
> Win-POV already has support for integrating 3rd party tools into the tools
> menu so there won't be a problem adding an entry calling the converter and
> opening the resulting file in a browser.
> 
> Christoph
> 


Alright, alright, you're right, I'm wrong, I'll back down! :-)   I
haven't yet 
had a chance to try povsdl2html.py -- I don't have python installed on
this particular
Windows machine.  
Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll shut up now.
--Mark


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