[gs-devel] Re: ghostscript vector devices

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:19:21PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> So the best would be an OpenPrinting Vector driver. OpenPrinting Vector 
> is an interface for modular plug-in drivers which can be vector-based 
> (not only raster-based as CUPS Raster and IJS). The driver is then 
> dlopened by Ghostscript or Ghostscript connects via RPC (the driver 
> developer can choose the communication method).

The OpenPrinting Vector interface doesn't currently have text support. 
That's fine for the design target (printing) but not for document 
conversion, so I think it's still worth pursuing the native Ghostscript
device.

Of course, I mostly care because we're interested in cleaning up the 
high-level device interface within Ghostscript, and having feedback from 
a gdevcairo implementation would really help with that.

 -r