[cairo] Re: cairo Digest, Vol 9, Issue 32

rush ta anjutagtk at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 08:00:10 PDT 2006


TO print a PDF/PS file we need a postscript printer..
But for the common inkjet printers,PCL language is used..
I am using Cairo to produce PDF/PS on PXA/ARM arch ....
Can Cairo take care of the conversion to PCL..
OR do I have to use anything else..

Pls advise..
regards
rush

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> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:12:57 -0700
> From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
> Subject: Re: [cairo] cairo snapshot 1.1.2 now available for testing
> To: cairo at cairographics.org
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> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:40:36 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
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> > This is the first in a series of snapshots working toward the upcoming
> > 1.2 release of cairo.
>
> We're really getting close to the 1.2 release now.
>
> Off the top of my head, here are at least three things that still need
> to happen before the release:
>
> 1) We need to land the device-offset, push/pop_group and other
>    Mozilla-required patches
>
> 2) We need to fix the set_dpi bug that is resulting in low-resolution
>    fallbacks, (and maybe even rework the API for this while we're at
>    it)
>
> 3) We need to improve PDF text support---at an absolute minimum it
>    should be as good as the current PostScript Type3 stuff we have,
>    and it would be great if we could do better than that.
>
> Meanwhile, I want to also close off any other loose ends that have
> been sitting around. And this is where I need help from people to let
> me know what needs to be done. Particularly, I'm interested in work
> that exists already that just hasn't been applied, (more than big new
> features that might be really cool---we have to have something still
> to work on for 1.4, right?).
>
> For example, sunmoon1997 and Zhe Su sent some patches for the
> fontconfig "embeddedbitmap" option. These had been sitting around
> unapplied since last September (*blush*). I've now applied this as the
> first commit to 1.1.3.
>
> So go ahead and embarrass me and tell me what other stuff I've been
> neglecting to get to, and let's make 1.2 as excellent as we can in the
> next few days.
>
> -Carl
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> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:20:28 -0700
> From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
> Subject: Re: [cairo] A better patch to support embedded bitmap rules.
> To: Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com>
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> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:06:31 +0800, Zhe Su wrote:
> >   In thread
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-September/005401.html,
> > sunmoon1997 propose a patch for cairo and fontconfg to support
> > embedded bitmap fonts.
> >   The attachment is an improved patch for cairo to handle matrix
> > transformation issue as well.
>
> Thanks for your contribution. I'm sorry I sat on this for so long
> without doing anything, but I just ported this patch forward and push
> it out (as of 1.1.3), so this will be in place for the upcoming 1.2
> release.
>
> See:
>
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=fe8bf47afc11b12034fd2c92caf424c8911d630b
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> -Carl
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