Re: Cairo

[David Kastrup]

Knut Petersen <knupero@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Lukas,
>> This time around, I could get it to compile. :-)
>>
> Thanks for testing
>
>
>> After testing it against a bunch of my recent everyday LilyPond
>> documents: For most of the files, it seems to work perfectly. (In
>> Okular, I seem to notice very subtle differences in line widths, but
>> those may be rendering artifacts.)
>
> The same is true for glyphs ... I have to investigate if there is a
> minor ghostscript or cairo or poppler (=previewer) problem
>
>
>>
>> Also, in most cases, the Cairo-generated pdf is much smaller than
>> the original. This seems most promising and not far from production
>> quality!
>
> probably you did not use \pointAndClickOff ;-) At least the code of
> ly:cairo-draw-round-box in my patch needs optimizations and can be
> tuned to generate much smaller pdf code.

Well, the PostScript code sucks for a reason.  It goes to tremendous
effort to make stems in bitmaps end up more consistent in thickness than
rendering left and right edge independently would.

-- 
David Kastrup