Re: [xmlroff] Cairo as the backend for xmlroff?

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

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 01:41, Dave Malcolm wrote:
> 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?

Alas, looking deeper, I'm not sure I'd be able to achieve much more than
sending the pages as a series of fully composited pixbufs to the
printer/PDF - not necessarily very useful.

Probably worth keeping an eye on, though.

> 
> 
> (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...)