[cairo] Cleaning up the PDF API

[Owen Taylor]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:13 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 22:55 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> 
> > cairo_pdf_surface_create_for_stream() on the other hand, will use the
> > closure for a longer time, specifically, the created pdf surface will
> > continue to reference it and use it *after* the function call returns.
> 
> There are many operations which the application may want to perform
> while cairo is busy with the file.  I see the application needing to
> output lots of information after each page, and more information at the
> end of the file.  I think we can make 'cairo_show_page()' and
> 'cairo_finish()' flush the file without performance problems, but that
> leaves the application needing to perform surface-specific operations at
> each of these points.

I'm lost here ... what do I want to do with a half-written PDF file
after calling show_page()? (A PDF file has no meaning until finish()
time, since the central index lives at the end of the file.)

Regards,
						Owen

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