[cairo-bugs] [Bug 38516] Make Text in generated SVG file selectable

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38516

--- Comment #22 from John Stowers <john.stowers at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> 
> As an application developer I chose Cairo not least because it promised to
> make it trivial to produce PDF and SVG exports of the graphics my software
> renders on screen. The typical use case for PDF is printing. Here, exact
> reproduction of the rendered output is indeed critical. Editing of PDFs
> works these days, but it's expected to be less than perfect. The typical use
> case for SVG, on the other hand, is as an exchange format for vector
> graphics, say for post-processing the drawing in a full blown vector
> graphics editor such as Inkscape.
> 
> However, the PDFs produced by Cairo are actually more suitable to editing
> than the SVGs. When opening a cairo-generated SVG in Inkscape, any user will
> quickly be frustrated by the fact that text is not text but a container
> object holding a bunch of individual characters. This is illustrated by
> numerous bug-reports filed with applications relying on Cairo to create
> vector graphics files (e.g. the Cairo device implementation for R).

+1

I actually export to PDF and then go through the inkscape PDF importer in order
to recover editable text.

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