On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:06 PM Paolo Prete <paolopr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 1:52 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> > wrote: > >> >> >> Thanks for reminding me, this is something that I wanted to >> share on this list but I forgot. We have a bit of a problem here, >> because Cairo doesn't support setting arbitrary attributes in SVG >> output right now. This corresponds to issue #281 in the Cairo >> bug tracker. >> >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/281 >> > So, in order to make this supported, we first have to get >> this supported in Cairo. >> >> > Thanks for this information. The issue was created 12 years ago (!) and it > received no feedback. Therefore I presume it won't be fixed because there's > no interest in fixing it. > But what is your plan about the SVG output? I mean: > 1) Is your plan to drop the SVG backend *only if/when* output-attributes > can be added to the Cairo backend? > (as a further note: the issue prevents to add hyperlinks too to the grobs, which is a very important, if not essential, feature as well) >
