[cairo] Howto: insert anchors into cairo-generated PDF or SVG graphics ?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:26 -0500, John Ellson wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, see:
> >
> >
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-November/012026.html
> >
> > behdad
> >   
> 
> Good.  Is there an implemenation developing?

No idea.  Alp would know.

> I was hoping for something slightly more abstract, that could support 
> anchors as enclosing blocks in
> SVG and VML, not just as shapes as in PDF or imagemaps.
> 
> Also, I was thinking that the cairo user should not have to define a
> new 
> path for the sensitive area; that instead an appropriate bounding
> region could extracted from a pushed group, or a mini surface, or 
> something like that.    No coordinates are required in the case of
> SVG.

Then propose a better API :).

> A question of style:  cairo doesn't need to know anything about URLs, 
> targets, tooltips, etc.   Is it better to introduce (a possibly
> evolving 
> set of)
> getters and setters for these properties, or just to have the user 
> populate a structure that cairo can pass transparently through to the 
> backends?

Note that the backends are part of cairo too.  So it's not so much that
"cairo doesn't need to know anything about [them]".

> John
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