Hi Chris,

I'll second Jon, that a great place to preview the cairo results is  
the OSM export tab!

On Jan 14, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>> The 0.6.0 release will include Cairo rendering support,
>
> Does this get all the Cairo back-ends? PDF in particular would be  
> great.
>

Yes, any image backend that cairo itself is built against.

> How does Cairo performance compare to Agg?
>

I did some limited tests that show Cairo formats being a bit slower,  
but tests with more complicated styles are needed:

See: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/OutputFormats

The major advantage are the PDF, PS, and SVG formats, which look great.

> thanks, and good luck for the next release!

Thanks!

Dane


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