[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 25240] Cairo backend for Qt4 wrapper

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25240

--- Comment #17 from Don Hopkins <dhopkins at DonHopkins.com> 2011-05-23 03:22:41 PDT ---
The citation you requested:

https://freddie.witherden.org/pages/font-rasterisation/#cid09

The two most popular PDF viewers under GNU/Linux, Evince (GTK+, GNOME) and
Okular (Qt, KDE), are both frontends to the Poppler PDF rendering library.
However, despite this, the two applications sometimes produce very different
output for the same document. This is because the Poppler library has two
rendering backends: a legacy one derived from the Xpdf 3.0 codebase (referred
to as Splash) as used by Okular, and a newer Cairo backend which is used by
Evince. While the output produced by the Cairo backend is generally of superior
quality to that producd by the Splash backend, it is not currently possible to
access the Cairo backend from Qt due to ‘toolkit politics’ Cid09.

Cid09
Albert Astals Cid
Cairo Backend for Qt Wrapper
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-June/004855.html
FreeDesktop Bugzilla – Bug 25240
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25240

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