> as noted before, page already handles ps/pdf.

this is true. however i wouldn't mind seeing some way
of doing nice looking drawing under plan 9 (not that i'm implying that
display pdf is suitably lightweight!). the draw ops implemented
by /dev/draw are not really good for anything except crude looking
diagrams - jaggies galore, and not enough positioning accuracy.
by way of illustration, observe how the implementation of line()
needs to use sub-pixel accuracy in order to get reasonable looking arrows.

i reckon you could strip out ellipse, line and polygon from devdraw
and almost nothing would notice. but replacing them is quite a bit of work...

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