[poppler] Preference to cairo?

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Tue Apr 5 11:58:25 PDT 2005


Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 
>> From what i seem to understand from the last cvs commit if both splash 
>> and cairo backend are present, poppler-glib uses cairo,
> 
> 
> That is correct.  It is easy to disable though, just pass 
> --disable-cairo-output to configure.
> 
>  > does that mean cairo backend is better than splash?
> 
> It's still a little rough around the edges, but it's already better in 
> some places.  And the goal definitely is to improve the cairo backend to 
> the point where it's obvious that it's better.

Oh, I forgot to mention these side by side screenshots:

	http://freedesktop.org/~krh/splash-vs-cairo-1.png
	http://freedesktop.org/~krh/splash-vs-cairo-2.png

cheers,
Kristian


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