Re: pdflib/pangopdf

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, Apr 11, 2003, Ã 01:04:45PM -0500, Lars Clausen a Ãcrit:
>  
> > If somebody wants to earn eternal fame in the Dia community and force
> > the release of a new version of Dia, here's the thing to do: Add a
> > (optional) renderer to PDF using pdflib/pangopdf.  pdflib has a license
> > that makes it compatible with Dia (as far as I can read it, we may want
> > to ask some Gnu legalese person).  Pangopdf does Pango rendering onto
> > PDF.  Whammo, instant PDF with text rendered better than we'd ever have
> > time to figure out.
>
> Yep, absolutely seconded.
>
> Besides, from what I've read, PangoPDF does *ALSO* Postscript output. I
> don't know if it handles anything besides PDF, though, or if it just
> piggybacks on Gnome-Print to handle that. And it's still unclear to me
> today whether Gnome-Print is considered a "GNOME" or a "Gtk" library
> nowadays (Alan?)