Re: Goffice and cairo

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le dimanche 10 septembre 2006 à 16:24 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I would like to make cairo a dependency of goffice HEAD.
>
> I'm working on the graph cairo renderer for quite some time now, and is
> in good shape with just one known regression with respect to
> libart/gnomeprint/svg renderers 
> ( see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341993 ). It even adds
> some nice additionnal features like mutiline labels in svg export,
> pretty log axis labels, and ps/pdf export.

Last time I tested the cairo pdf exporter, I got just a bitmap which was
of too low resolution for correct printing (and even on screen when
zoomed). Do cairo have god ps and pdf backends these days?

> This would also allow me to use the new GOPalette/GOSelector widgets.
> They're prettier than GOCombo, use less code, support drag and drop and
> make switching objects in guru dialog snappier (and with a bit of work,
> it will be possible to replace completely GOCombo and derivated
> widgets).
>
> This new dependency can be added without requiring a newer version of
> gtk+, which means we can keep gtk+ 2.6 (That's better for the maemo port
> of gnumeric, where gtk+ > 2.6 is not possible yet).
>
> If it's ok, I'll change configure file in order to add a hard dependency
> to cairo 1.2.0 (which is a version with acceptable ps/pdf/svg backends).

Cheers,
Jean