[poppler] SVGOutputDev: what is the plan

[Jon Cruz]

On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:45 AM, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:

> Poppler has a CairoOutputDev, and Cairo has a SVG backend. So, if you
> wanted to use this for Inkscape (which already depends on Cairo), just
> have Poppler render to a Cairo SVG surface.

Last time this was evaluated, the type of output was not appropriate for efficient, editable SVG. It might look close, but it is not structured nearly as cleanly. And then there are things such as the lack of CMYK, DeviceN, etc.