Re: [Inkscape-devel] PS and PDF: Print/Save As

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Ulf Erikson <ulferikson@...400...> wrote:

I'm wondering whether you are not both seeing the same exporter as favorable..

I'm referring to the "second"/newer one - I think it is better:

The "first"/older cairo exporter (CairoPdfOutput) uses PrintCairoPDF which implements the Extension::Print interface. It was probably based on the older native pdf exporter (which was based on the older native ps exporter).

The "second"/newer cairo exporter (CairoRendererPdfOutput) implements the Extension::Output interface which means that it is given the full document tree. It uses CairoRenderer and CairoRenderContext internally to do the work (those two are also used by postscript and printing via cairo).