Out of couriosity - does the introduction of Cairo bring us any closer to rendering LilyPond directly in web browser (i.e. with WebAssembly)? Have anyone considered that?
W dniu środa, 24 sierpnia 2022 Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> napisał(a): > 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 > > >
