[cairo] Will PDF COW be in cairo 1.10

Arjen Nienhuis a.g.nienhuis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 08:56:35 PST 2010


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:36:36 +0000, Kieran McCusker <kieran.mccusker at kwest.info> wrote:
>> Does anyone know if the COW PDF will be in 1.10. I haven't seen anything
>> about it  recently
>
> There is support for bovine snapshots as used by PDF to only emit an image
> once for a document, as well as mime-data support to replace those images
> with alternate compressed representations, i.e. jpeg;
>
> It's done, hence no one feels the need to discussion it further. ;-)
> Apart from Behdad who would like us to compare every pattern to
> prior snapshots in order to provide file size reduction for naive users.
> -ickle

Except for naive users like me, that would also help wrt image fallbacks right?


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