On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 22:53 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 12:48 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
Yes, it was for testing the Cairo output. It was part of the GSoC project to do PDF output, and was easy enough to add, so we left it in for testing Cairo rendering. Now, is anyone using it for anything now? Bulia? I'd imagine at this point it's cruft.
It still can be useful for testing our cairo interfaces, because it uses basically the same renderer as PS or PDF exporter, but of course it must be hidden in the user-visible list. Is that possible? If not then it should be removed.
How would people use it then? From the command line? We could disable and reenable it for releases, but that seems kinda bad in that we'd then have developers and users using different builds.
Developers and users are almost always using different builds by default. But I think most developers also keep the last official release installed too for testing purposes.
Either way, as I understand it, if you open (rather than import) a PNG file, draw on top of it or modify it, and hit "Save" it will save via Cairo and not our export method.
Cheers, Josh