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

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 04:37:04PM -0400, Alex Korobkin wrote:
> Sure, here you go:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85662

Thanks.

I don't have access to a test case or the problematic printer from the
original printer, so I've pushed the revert.  Hopefully Adrian can take
a deeper look at the original issue and find a safer fix.  I'll CC him
to the bug report in case he'd like to have you verify that new fixes
don't regress printers like yours.

Bryce
 
> 2014-10-30 16:27 GMT-04:00 Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>:
> 
> > 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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