On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:51:16 -0500, mental@...3... <mental@...3...> wrote:
The reason is that Cairo writes PDF/Postscript shapes tesselated into trapezoids, rather than as paths with fills and strokes (at least this is planned; I don't know whether that is the reality yet).
It's a bummer. However I think that generally, it would be much more preferable if Cairo had the option to ouput non-tesselated Postscript as well, which we could use. It's the best approach from many viewpoints: first, Cairo already has the curve representation that it could pass on to PS; second, doing that would allow much more programs to get PS with curves; and third, both kinds of PS have a lot in common, so it would be very inefficient to reimplement the entire PS output for the sake of preserving curves.
Mental, if you agree, maybe we should contact Cairo people about this issue?