[Mono-list] Using System.Drawing.Graphics.FromHwnd without X?

[Vincent Povirk]

FromHwnd(0) creates a Graphics object for drawing directly to the
screen, and I can't think of a reason for a well-behaved program to do
that. So I would say PdfSharp should not do that.

In theory, libgdiplus should be able to function without an X server
if all of the work is done on bitmaps. It should be possible to create
a bitmap and get a Graphics object for it without an X server. But I
don't know if this is true in practice.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:23 PM, RobWalker <Rob.Walker at cedarridge.com> wrote:
>
> I am running mono on EC2 and using fastcgi-mono-server2 ... mostly everything
> works great.  Part of the app uses the PdfSharp library for manipulating
> pdf's.
>
> PdfSharp allows for 'drawing' on a PDF page, and calls
> System.Drawing.Graphics.FromHwnd(0) as part of that code.  This is failing
> with a 'System.NotSupportedException' exception and saying "Could not open
> display (X-Server required. Check you DISPLAY environment variable)"
>
> libgdiplus is installed correctly  (I had different errors before I got that
> far).  Is there any way around this?
>
> Thanks!
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