[cairo] Can cairo generates <text> elements in the svg output ?

Jonathan Marchand jonathlela at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 03:03:32 PDT 2010


Currently, cairo generates text in svg by means of path for each glyhs,
there is no <text> elements generated. Thus, there is no way to extract
the text from an output file.  This issue was addressed before[1], but
it seems that today cairo still lacks this feature.

Is this feature planned ? Are there strong fundamentals motives against
it ? Does it present technical difficulties to implement ?

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2007-March/010135.html
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