Hi, On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:29:20PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > I think the current implementation of the print plugin is fine, i.e. > > generate the PDF with opaque images. If someone needs to have a PDF with > > images with alpha values, it would be possible to write a 'save-as-pdf > > plugin' similar to the print plugin that uses also gtk_print_* > > functionality. I think that even layers could be embedded into the PDF. > > I > > could (try to) write such a plugin. > > I wouldn't base this on GtkPrint but directly on Cairo. GtkPrint just > adds funtionality to deal with printers, it wouldn't offer any advantage > if you are just creating a PDF file. Yes, this would of course also be possible and not too different from a GtkPrint approach. GtkPrint offers dialogs to choose the PageSize etc, which Cairo does not. > Export to PDF has often been requested. It would be particularly > interesting if it could contain text layers as PDF text elements. We are > missing some additions to the PDB text API to make this possible. But > the missing API could be added (after 2.4 of course). Ok, I will try to implement a plugin based on Cairo, but this will take some time... Stefan _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
