Re: [pdf-devel] "Hello World" /Td

[jemarch]

Hello.

   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.

These are great news. Our plan is to use libcairo as the graphics
library to render the contents of PDF pages. The page layer of the
library (see http://gnupdf.org/Lib:Architecture) will provide methods
to manipulate page contents and to get abstract representations of
these contents (something like the display trees used by fitz). Would
be a quite good idea to achieve a tight level of integration with
libcairo in that layer. Your knowledge of libcairo would be quite
valuable in the design of the page layer.

Welcome. I much appreciate your interest :)

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