Hi Sebastian, I dont want to archive my emails on bugreports privately.
Please add your comments directly to the report. Thanks, JW-
Am 14.04.2014 10:50 schrieb "Sebastien Bacher" <seb...@ubuntu.com>:

> Thanks for your bug report/work on it. That seems like a valid bugfix to
> backport but we are probably going to want to have a review comment from
> upstream first (and ideally having them commiting the fix to their vcs)
>
> ** Changed in: cairo (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: cairo (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #77298
>    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77298
>
> ** Also affects: libcairo via
>    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77298
>    Importance: Unknown
>        Status: Unknown
>
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> Title:
>   Inkscape (using cairo) fails to print thin lines to PDF
>
> Status in libcairo  -  cairo vector graphics library:
>   Unknown
> Status in “cairo” package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>   Since 1.12.3, cairo cannot render fine lines to pdf. 1.12.2 was the
>   last version that worked.
>
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cair/diff/?id=bdf83008f4b2c723fd8e65e2a92bc47a2e7bc442
>
>   introduced code to avoid lines that would be invisible when
>   rasterized. While this is a valid logic for raster backends, it is a
>   bad idea for PDF output. There we want to see all fine lines.
>
>   My specific use case is generating a lasercutter drawing for an Epilog
>   Zing laser with inkscape. There the hardware would raster anything
>   thicker than 0.02mm, and cut 0.01mm or below. 1.12.3 skips lines below
>   0.036mm, 1.13.1 skips lines below 0.018mm -- which is still not enough
>   to safely drive my lasercutter.
>
>   Previously reported against inkscape:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1174909
>
>   Also reported agains cairo upstream with a suggested fix:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77298
>   Check out the attached reproducer and fix.
>
>   I'd suggest to circulate patched ubuntu packages, until upstream
>   releases an official fix.
>
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