[cairo] Vector screen capture with Cairo

[Dennis Leeuw]

Maybe you should have a look at:
http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
or
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/eps-convert-svg.html

With kind regards,

Dennis Leeuw

Peter Clifton wrote:
> Hi, I asked this question on the GTK app-devel list, but so far no-one
> has anything to say about it. I get the feeling the solution is quite
> involved technically - either with Cairo or Gdk + GTK internals.
> 
> 
> I want to get a vector-based a window capture of a program for inclusion
> in user-documentation. This would produce a nice scalable, (and
> hopefully memory efficient) way to embed the window capture. 
> 
> Since GTK and Gdk use Cairo, and Cairo supports Postscript output, it
> seems logical to think it might be possible to use a suitably modified
> Gdk library to produce such output.
> 
> Does anyone know of similar attempts? I presume the place to start is in
> the back-ends of Gdk, along the lines of the x11, or quartz directories.
> 
> There would also presumably be need to ensure the program starts up and
> displays its-self as intended for the screen shot, then exits.
> 
> I realise this isn't "easy", but does any one have any suggestions how
> it might be possible to proceed?
> 
> 
> Regards,
>