Re: Any alternatives to libgs DEVICE=cairo for reading PS into a cairo surface?

Adrian Johnson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 15/09/12 07:46, John Ellson wrote:
> Behdad at one time wrote a cairo device for libgs (ghostscript).
> 
> I had written a plugin for graphviz that successfully used this device
> to import PS images as node shapes in graphs.
> 
> According to:
>     http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690009
> this device was dropped from libgs .
> 
> I've opened a new bug to the ghostscript folks:
>    http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693335
> but I was wondering if anyone on this list could suggest an alternative
> technique
> for loading PS images on to a cairo surface?

Use ps2pdf to convert to PDF then poppler-glib to render to a cairo surface.


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> John
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