[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-18 Thread Evan Martin
Here's the blog of the guy who seems to do the most work on the Windows+Cairo WebKit build: http://lwat.blogspot.com/ He occasionally posts status updates. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Ben Harper wrote: > > Thanks for all the feedback. I think I'll give the plain WebKit + > Cairo > thing a

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Harper
Thanks for all the feedback. I think I'll give the plain WebKit + Cairo thing a go. On May 18, 3:06 am, Joel Stanley wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:46, Evan Martin wrote: > > WebKit (but not the Chromium port) already targets Cairo via GTK, and > > Cairo supports PDF output.  I'm not sure

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-17 Thread Joel Stanley
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:46, Evan Martin wrote: > WebKit (but not the Chromium port) already targets Cairo via GTK, and > Cairo supports PDF output.  I'm not sure anyone's using it for PDF > output yet though. Midori uses it. 'midori -s http://path.to/website' will output a pdf of the site.

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-17 Thread Peter Kasting
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Ben Harper wrote: > Hmmm... yes I'm aware of the Cairo thing. I just gave up on trying to > build Webkit > on my Windows machine, because I can't stand spending days just to get > something to compile, when someone else on my team is waiting for my > proof of conc

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-17 Thread Ben Harper
Hmmm... yes I'm aware of the Cairo thing. I just gave up on trying to build Webkit on my Windows machine, because I can't stand spending days just to get something to compile, when someone else on my team is waiting for my proof of concept. To the guys who ported Webkit to Skia, my question is th

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-17 Thread Evan Martin
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Ben Harper wrote: > Before I get going, I just want to make sure that I'm not reinventing > the wheel, nor wasting my time. I know that on OSX, CoreGraphics can > output to PDF, but I need this functionality on Windows. > I've got a C++ PDF authoring library which

[chromium-dev] Re: Is creating a custom PDF rendering backend a sound idea?

2009-05-17 Thread Eric Seidel
I think this would be out of scope for WebKit. Probably would fall under non-goals: http://webkit.org/projects/goals.html That said, I be this already works with the Apple WebKit Windows build. If you build WebKit with CG support on Windows then you likely already have this support from CG. :)