Hi folks,
last time I looked at Cairo, its PDF generation was not really suitable
for use in LilyPond. I have now updated my Cairo repository and saw
that there are commits for its PDF backend supporting hyperlinks,
document outlines, document metadata as of last October.
What does that mean?
> The first step would likely just involve moving to Cairo data
> structures while keeping most of the current code except where the
> code would duplicate Cairo API calls in a reasonably straightforward
> way.
Sounds very sensible. Looking around for other PDF generation
libraries, we don't hav
Werner LEMBERG writes:
>> The first step would likely just involve moving to Cairo data
>> structures while keeping most of the current code except where the
>> code would duplicate Cairo API calls in a reasonably straightforward
>> way.
>
> Sounds very sensible. Looking around for other PDF gen
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> What does that mean? Mainly a viable migration strategy where we might
> be able to drop catering for a whole lot of graphics programming
> ourselves by introducing a dependency on Cairo. I am not overly
what "catering for graphic program
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> What does that mean? Mainly a viable migration strategy where we might
>> be able to drop catering for a whole lot of graphics programming
>> ourselves by introducing a dependency on Cairo. I am not overly
>
>
David Kastrup:
...
> The main question mark would concern font handling
> but I think it integrates with FreeType as well as Pango.
...
cairo has support for freetype
https://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-FreeType-Fonts.html
pango has support for cairo:
https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable
Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> > What does that mean? Mainly a viable migration strategy where we might
> > be able to drop catering for a whole lot of graphics programming
> > ourselves by introducing a dependency on Cairo. I am not overly
>
> what
k...@aspodata.se writes:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys:
>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> > What does that mean? Mainly a viable migration strategy where we might
>> > be able to drop catering for a whole lot of graphics programming
>> > ourselves by introducing a dependency on C
David Kastrup:
> k...@aspodata.se writes:
>
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> >> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
...
> > If no one else like to care for postscript, I can step in to handle it.
>
> I don't know what that means.
It's like english, I am willing to take care of somethi
k...@aspodata.se writes:
> David Kastrup:
>> k...@aspodata.se writes:
>>
>> > Han-Wen Nienhuys:
>> >> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> ...
>> > If no one else like to care for postscript, I can step in to handle it.
>>
>> I don't know what that means.
>
> It's like engli
David Kastrup:
> k...@aspodata.se writes:
> > David Kastrup:
...
> "taking care of PostScript" is not related to converting LilyPond's
> graphics internals to Cairo since LilyPond's graphics internals are not
> written in PostScript.
Ok, forget it then, you are not listening.
...
> When processin
>> "taking care of PostScript" is not related to converting LilyPond's
>> graphics internals to Cairo since LilyPond's graphics internals are
>> not written in PostScript.
>
> Ok, forget it then, you are not listening. [...]
Why such a hostile tone, Karl? There is no reason for this.
I have t
Werner:
> >> "taking care of PostScript" is not related to converting LilyPond's
> >> graphics internals to Cairo since LilyPond's graphics internals are
> >> not written in PostScript.
> >
> > Ok, forget it then, you are not listening. [...]
>
> Why such a hostile tone, Karl? There is no reaso
As the maintainer of LilyBin, I'll be interested in knowing if you
encounter any issues, especially with reliability of the service! Last
year, I and another developer did some work to get LilyBin running on AWS
Lambda especially to handle the load of classroom situations where many
people use are
Is there a 64 bit OS X version of the lilypond application? If not, is
there any reason for that?
Andrew
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Folks,
the author of pdfsizeopt
https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt
has recently applied some bug fixes to make it work with lilypond
documentation files (cf. https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/issues/11).
Using trueroad's approach (i.e., using `extractpdfmark'),
`lilypond-notation.pdf' genera
k...@aspodata.se writes:
> Werner:
>> >> "taking care of PostScript" is not related to converting LilyPond's
>> >> graphics internals to Cairo since LilyPond's graphics internals are
>> >> not written in PostScript.
>> >
>> > Ok, forget it then, you are not listening. [...]
>>
>> Why such a hos
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