Re: Missing items to make Cairo ready

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Sat, 2023-01-07 at 22:25 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Le 07/01/2023 à 22:16, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> > That's not really my point; if we keep markup commands that only work
> > via this very specific ps2pdf conversion, we have to guarantee that
> > users get the same visual output as direct PDF output. Do we want to
> > support this? Does Cairo guarantee this for all possible cases that we
> > run into? I highly doubt this is a good rabbit hole to go into...
> 
> I don't see an obvious reason for the PDF output to differ noticeably from
> the current output since Cairo doesn't process the EPS code in any way
> but just embeds it in pretty much the same way as the PS backend does,
> and the EPS -> PDF rendering is done by GS in both cases.

That's only the EPS file; but for all the rest, is Cairo -> PS ->
ps2pdf -> PDF identical to Cairo -> PDF?

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