Some noticeable advantags of using Xprint currently:
- You are not limited to the Postscript/PDF rendering model - you can use whatever you want (X core model, Xrender, OpenGL, Postscript, PCL, SVG, etc.)
- Upward compatibility to future features added to the server (add Xprint support now to your application and get new features once they have been added to the server, no need to change/upgrade your application)
- Network-transparency
- Low resource usage for thin clients or handhelds (Xprint server can run on the print server and can be shared among many clients)
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Follow http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/ChangeLog?rev=1 .365.2.155&only_with_tag=XORG-6_8-branch&view=mark up, check for commits with "xprint" or "print" in the description.
Some noticeable advantags of using Xprint currently:
- You are not limited to the Postscript/PDF rendering model - you can use whatever you want (X core model, Xrender, OpenGL, Postscript, PCL, SVG, etc.)
- Upward compatibility to future features added to the server (add Xprint support now to your application and get new features once they have been added to the server, no need to change/upgrade your application)
- Network-transparency
- Low resource usage for thin clients or handhelds (Xprint server can run on the print server and can be shared among many clients)
XPrint is NOT deprecated. It's under active development and becoming better and better :-)