[cairo] Patch for not using '\' to split strings across multiple lines breaks printing and PS viewers

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 03:35:05PM -0400, Alex Korobkin wrote:
> Hi team,
> 
> This patch [1] breaks PostScript printing with pdftocairo to Ricoh
> printers: only the last line of the sequence is printed.
> 
> For example, if you have this in your .ps file,
> (aaa)
> (bbb)
> (cc)
> only "cc" will appear on the page.
> 
> PostScript viewers also fail to parse it: neither GhostScript nor Evince
> are able display these lines.
> 
> Please revert or fix the patch?
> 
> 1.
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=ab2a7b61d59258b71e1c3256edf2f42ea6cc1eb2
> 
> -Alex

Hi Alex, would you mind filing a bug report for tracking purposes?
Then I'll back the patch out.

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