[cairo] Re: Embeding JPG in PDF

[Emmanuel Pacaud]

On mar, 2007-01-09 at 04:57 +0000, Alp Toker wrote:
> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > On 1/8/07, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> So, there's this bug against eog (GNOME image viewer) [1] about images
> >> printed to PDF are huge.  The reason of course is that cairo embeds
> >> images as PNG.  We need to find a solution to this.
> > ...
> >> My personal preference is to add just enough API to cairo-pdf.h that a
> >> toolkit like pdftk can /integrate/ with cairo, to produce more advanced
> >> PDF documents.  That's what we do for text: delegate to pangocairo.
> > 
> > My thoughts about this is that we could add a function like
> > 
> > cairo_surface_t
> > cairo_pdf_surface_create_from_jpeg(const char *filename);

I don't think it's a good idea. It would be a very specific solution to
a very specific problem, and a call to a lot more similar specific API
calls. And JPEG embedding is also something we want for the SVG backend.

> Maybe there's an opportunity here to integrate some of the lossless 
> jpeg rotation, cropping and joining algorithms like 
> http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/jpegtran/ in the form of a jpeg surface that 
> can both read from and write to jpeg files?

That would be better, and even better without a specific surface. A
cairo_image_surface_create_from_jpeg () would load a jpeg image in
memory and keep it as jpeg data, with some internal cairo API that would
allow other backend to get directly these raw data. Only an
acquire_image would trigger jpeg decompression.

	Emmanuel.