Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Antoni Grzymala <awaria@××××××××××.pl>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:35:27
Message-Id: 20110222193432.GA6768@lemongrass.antoszka.pl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 Tomáš Chvátal dixit (2011-02-22, 19:39):
2
3 > >>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote:
4 > >>>>> Build gnuplot with USE="cairo" and you can get PDF output with the
5 > >>>>> "pdfcairo" terminal.
6 > >>>
7 > >>> Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf
8 > >>> it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer.
9 > >>> pdflib is generating vector pdf which is a different thing.
10 > >>
11 > >> You should check again.
12 > >
13 > > are you saying that because you know cairo has fixed itself, or because you
14 > > dont know the answer yourself ?
15 > > -mike
16 > To my best knowledge cairo can do proper pdf files.
17 >
18 > Courtesy of 12 lines of python, see the attachment, both vector curves
19 > and normal text in one fancy pdf file.
20
21 I don't see any curves (in any pdf viewer), only some ZOMG_TEXT. I
22 always thought Python was suspicious :).
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