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From: "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:41:58
Message-Id: 4D6402E0.6080808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib by Mike Frysinger
1 Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a):
2 > On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:54:11 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
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 Tom

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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib Antoni Grzymala <awaria@××××××××××.pl>