|
| From: | David Feuer |
| Subject: | Re: Backend and non-backend (was Re: Stencil bounding box) |
| Date: | Mon, 1 May 2006 23:13:21 -0400 |
On 5/1/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
Given that we haven't had anyone writing or modifying the backend in the past 5 years, I doubt that there is much need for this.
I've been working on it ...
it should take geometry and appearance into account, ie. where the symbols end up on the page, and how large they are. What I would really want is to have a similarity measure for the image produced by two PDF files, but that's a rather hard problem, and it will be easier if we take advantage of the fact that we can access the backend.
Well, if you care about where things are on the page, one option would be just to compare PNGs. Otherwise: the new backend design I'm considering would flatten stencils. This should make it really easy to pull out a list of elements, sorted in any convenient fashion. David
| [Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |