On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:31:19 -1000, Eric Firing wrote: > if only cairo would make eps files
Isn't EPS a trivially change compared to PS? Something like a modified header and the addition of bounding-box information? It sounds like something that should be really easy to change in cairo. Maybe you could take a cairo-generated .ps file and manually munge it into the .eps that you'd like? If you did that, I'd be glad to write the necessary cairo code to get the same result, (and come up with whatever tiny new API is necessary to instruct cairo to do that). As for the rest of what you say. From my point of view, yes, using cairo and its multi-backend capabilities seems to make a fair amount more sense than inventing a new system with multiple backends. (Not a criticism against the original MPL stuff---cairo 1.0 has only existed since August 2005). But yeah, I also understand that there are licensing concerns. Anything else? Are there cairo performance concerns? If so, I'd love to hear about them so we can fix them. And even if you don't use cairo directly, I will offer the suggestion of its drawing model as being very good, (using source and mask pattern objects and just 5 different drawing operations: stroke, fill, paint, show_text/glyphs, and mask). Whatever you decide to go with, have fun! -Carl
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