Re: pdflib/pangopdf

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, Apr 11, 2003, à 01:04:45PM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
>  
>> If somebody wants to earn eternal fame in the Dia community and force
>> the release of a new version of Dia, here's the thing to do: Add a
>> (optional) renderer to PDF using pdflib/pangopdf.  pdflib has a license
>> that makes it compatible with Dia (as far as I can read it, we may want
>> to ask some Gnu legalese person).  Pangopdf does Pango rendering onto
>> PDF.  Whammo, instant PDF with text rendered better than we'd ever have
>> time to figure out.
> 
> Yep, absolutely seconded.
> 
> Besides, from what I've read, PangoPDF does *ALSO* Postscript output. I
> don't know if it handles anything besides PDF, though, or if it just
> piggybacks on Gnome-Print to handle that. And it's still unclear to me
> today whether Gnome-Print is considered a "GNOME" or a "Gtk" library
> nowadays (Alan?)

>From the looks of the Debian dependencies, it's free of Gnome deps.  The
Gnome-Print UI, on the other hand, is not, it uses Gnome canvas.

Before anybody goes on to suggest that libpdf be the only PS/EPS/PDF output
mechanism, we'd need to figure out more about their license.  It's quirky.

-Lars

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