[xmlroff] Cairo backend: close, very, very close

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

I have added a Cairo backend that is very close to working correctly, at least
for PostScript output.

If you like the raw, bleeding edge, then you can check out the current code
from CVS.

You will get more visible results if you run autogen.sh with the
'--disable-clip' argument:

   ./autogen.sh --disable-clip

A good sample to try it on is the testsuite file
property/border-padding-background/background-color1.fo

(FYI, I have so far only run the current xmlroff from my workspace and haven't
tried installing it.)

For those of you who can't take the suspense of waiting until you've updated
your xmlroff workspace and rebuilt, the Cairo PostScript output currently has
the Y-axis reversed: what should be at the top of the page appears at the
bottom, and vice-versa.  The text, however, is the right way up, but it also
happens to not coincide with its background.

So far the PDF output is failing because the layouts apparently have zero
lines of text.

Regards,


Tony.