[cairo] PDF backend starts to get interesting

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Apr 21 05:47:02 PDT 2006


Carl Worth wrote:
> ...
> http://cairographics.org/~cworth/images/minefield-mozilla-smask.pdf
> 
> I also tested a couple of pages with more challenging scripts, just to
> see what the results look like:
> 
> http://cairographics.org/~cworth/images/bbc-co-uk_chinese.pdf
> 
> http://cairographics.org/~cworth/images/yahoo-co-jp.pdf
 > ...

All very cool!  Just to throw out a feature request that would be
particularly useful for web browsers and other PDF creators using
Cairo - support for hyperlinks and forms.  Not sure what the API
should look like - links and form controls need a bounding box, some
appearance data, and a URL...

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