Re: output-attributes on Cairo backend

[Paolo Prete]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:06 PM Paolo Prete <paolopr976@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 1:52 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>
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>> 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.
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>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/281
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> So, in order to make this supported, we first have to get
>> this supported in Cairo.
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> 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?
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(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)



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