[cairo] PDF backend starts to get interesting
Ralph Giles
giles at ghostscript.com
Fri Apr 21 10:03:37 PDT 2006
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:31:29AM -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> Fortunately the ability to name and later reference objects in PDF
> should come in quite handy here. For starters we might add API to to
> allocated an object ID, and API to allow for providing chunks of PDF
> to define the objects themselves.
Completely tangential, but Stuart, Larry Ewing and I briefly discussed
metadata in the cairo api at the printing summit. Obviously
document-level description is the most important thing, but PDF also
allows per-page and per-object metadata (usually RDF in xml) which
and extension like this should also enable.
-r
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