[xmlroff] Cairo as the backend for xmlroff?

[Dave M. <da...@da...>]

I've been having a look at xmlroff and libfo after a long break.  It
struck me that there's a lot in common between the FoDoc subclasses and
a Cairo context.

See http://cairographics.org/

There's currently a fair amount of momentum behind the Cairo project (it
has the author of Pango and of the X Render extension on board) - so it
might be worth supporting a FoDocCairo backend.  Is it worth me
attempting a patch?


(I'm hoping Cairo will emerge as the "one true 2D imaging API", which
would allow the scrapping of lots of intermediate wrapper layers.  In
particular, a Cairo backend for printing to a GnomePrintContext might
emerge at some point, or GnomePrint might go over to using Cairo
directly.  Hopefully some way of plugging it all together, at any
rate...)

-- 
David Malcolm
www.conglomerate.org