[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Harper
Thanks for all the feedback. I think I'll give the plain WebKit + Cairo thing a go. On May 18, 3:06 am, Joel Stanley joel.s...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:46, Evan Martin e...@chromium.org wrote: WebKit (but not the Chromium port) already targets Cairo via GTK, and Cairo

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-18 Thread Evan Martin
Here's the blog of the guy who seems to do the most work on the Windows+Cairo WebKit build: http://lwat.blogspot.com/ He occasionally posts status updates. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Ben Harper rogo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the feedback. I think I'll give the plain WebKit +

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-17 Thread Eric Seidel
I think this would be out of scope for WebKit. Probably would fall under non-goals: http://webkit.org/projects/goals.html That said, I be this already works with the Apple WebKit Windows build. If you build WebKit with CG support on Windows then you likely already have this support from CG. :)

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-17 Thread Evan Martin
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Ben Harper rogo...@gmail.com wrote: Before I get going, I just want to make sure that I'm not reinventing the wheel, nor wasting my time. I know that on OSX, CoreGraphics can output to PDF, but I need this functionality on Windows. I've got a C++ PDF authoring