[cairo] Meta surface proposal

Alex Dubov oakad at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 8 02:18:06 PST 2005


Forgive me my ignorance, but is not pdf is supposed to
be a meta format for Cairo rendering model? After all,
it's always possible to generate simplified pdf
similar to the style Metapost generates simplified PS.
Then one can use ghostscript or something to produce
whatever output he desires.

> The more I think about this, the more I am thinking
> that what we want is a
> metafile format and external applications which
> convert that to the desired
> final format.  I still don't see any significant
> benefit in integrating the
> metaformat conversion routines directly into the
> main cairo library, and I 
> certainly see advantages in doing it in external
> programs.
> 
> -keith



		
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