[cairo] API proposal: cairo_save/restore_path

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:16 +0200, Adib Taraben wrote:
> 
> Hello Behdad,
> 
> are you saying that to work on a PS viewer on top of cairo? I am curious 
> if there is such library without gs dependency (that can probably create 
> svg).

Hi Adib,

Such a library does not quite exist now.  It's the missing piece to have
full cairo roundtrip for PS/PDF/SVG.  However, there is a start on such
a library:

  http://hieroglyph.freedesktop.org/wiki/index


Last time I checked, it was not quite usable.

I wonder if a cairo backend to gs is all we want.  That would save a lot
of code, but also drags the whole gs dependency.


> That feature you describe will it optimize drawings with inkscapes clone 
> object (I think it is a svg href)?

Not really.  We are still not working with paths as objects in cairo.
The proposal is just to have a stack of paths instead of one current
path.

> Adib. 
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