Hi,
Olly Hodgson wrote:
What we are looking into is Cario (www.cairographics.org), which is a 2D vector graphics API that does support exactly this (device independant graphics). It already has backends for PostScript and PDF, so it's a good choice. Plus, it's possible to hardware accelerate it's screen drawing functionality through OpenGL, since it's based on an XRender like compositing engine. This makes it quite interesting.
Ooh! Ooh! This is the one they're basing the next version of Gnome on isn't it?
Dunno about Gnome, but it's handled as the Next-Best-Thing(tm)
Mozilla are also moving in that direction.
Yeah, I saw a comment somewhere that somebody actually made a GFX layer for Mozilla based on it.
To be honest, it would probably also be a good candidate for OOo.
JFDI[1] I say :)
_J_ou _F_rigging _D_umb _I_diot ? (SCNR) ;)
Regards,