[cairo] PDF Text Extraction: Future

[Bill Spitzak]

Yes actually you are probably right. I was not thinking ahead. The 
problem is that the program is calling Pango, and it is Pango that needs 
to change behavior, not the calling program. So querying the surface as 
to whether this stuff should be done is probably a good idea.

I think there may be a desire to make a "small" pdf that deletes all 
this information. But that could also be a flag on the pdf surface that 
causes it to return that it does not need this information. The program 
can turn this on/off according to user preference.

Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2007 11:37 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at thefoundry.co.uk 
> <mailto:spitzak at thefoundry.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
>     I think "the program knows it is printing so it should use the slow api"
>     is acceptable.
> 
>  
> That's annoying; that means the program will have to pass a flag around 
> with its cairo_t/cairo_surface_t saying "am I printing".

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