On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:55:13PM +0200, Ulf Erikson wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
(I know of UberConverter, but PDF is the most important interchange format so we should better support it natively)
The PrintingConsensusPoll has not seen much progress the last half year.. (you've lost a few links there, btw. It's PDF_Bugs, PDF_Test_Cases, and PDF_Tools)
Yes, the condition for moving forward on it was to get 20 people to list themselves in the poll, but we only got 17. I think it was an interesting approach to solving the problem, but in practice it failed to get the level of participation expected.
I wrote my own PDF output for Inkscape few weeks ago. It doesn't even try to address all your requirements and is not based on Cairo. All I wanted was a PDF with colours, bounding box and transparency. And that is about all there is. I never got much further than strokes and fills. It wasn't needed for the drawings I wanted to convert anyway. There is no support for features such as text, patterns or embedded images..
If this still sounds interesting enough as a starting point I could mail it to you.
Would you have the interest in continuing on with development of it?
Bryce