Re: LilyPond 2.23.12

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 24/08/2022 à 09:49, Andrew Bernard a écrit :
> Is Cairo related to producing PDF or only SVG?


Both, but its advantages are the most shiny on SVG output, where it 
produces output enormously faster, and embeds fonts in the SVG file 
which ensures they can be viewed on any browser without getting fallback 
fonts.

PDF output is also faster, but the difference is not very noticeable for 
normal use (although it is noticeable when compiling lots and lots and 
lots of snippets, like when compiling the LilyPond documentation), 
whereas SVG output in the current default SVG backend is really slow, 
and gets just as fast as PDF output with Cairo.

The PDF Cairo backend currently doesn't support all features of the 
traditional PS backend (-dembed-source-code for example).

Jean