  Gnome is in need of a unified printing architecture. This package is an
attempt for such an architecture, geared towards heavily graphics-intensive
applications.

    The goals of this architecture include:

      - Absolutely uncompromised output quality
      - Speed, memory efficiency, and other related performance goals
      - Ability to work smoothly with PostScript printers, fonts, and
        other resources
      - A screen display derived from the Caanvas
      - An extension path for a wide variety of Unicode scripts
      - An extension path for a richer set of graphics operators than
        PostScript supports, especially transparency
      - To make life as easy as possible for application developers
