[pdf-devel] "Hello World" /Td

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi,

Just joined the list and following the instructions to send a Hello
message.  I got to know of libgnupdf because someone pointed that out on
the cairo [1] list.  I co-maintain cairo and maintain Pango.  The duo
can be used to generate PDFs, and that's where my interest comes from.

Cairo has a sophisticated PDF backend and I'm interested in integrating
cairo with gnupdf.  The idea is that cairo will never give a user
control over the full feature set of PDF (say, forms, encryption, etc),
so we like provide API that allows using a real PDF library with cairo
to be able to produce fully customizable PDFs.

GNUpdf on the other hand can benefit from using cairo too, as cairo
provides quite a few thousand lines of code worth of font subsetters
that see a fair amount of bugfixes on a regular basis.

Anyway, just ideas.

[1] http://cairographics.org/

Regards,

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behdad
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