[gl2ps] Output to Cairo ?

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 23:29:38 CEST 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Stuart Axon <stuaxo2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  GL2PS looks like an interesting project, any idea how difficult it would be to make it use cairo, so that images could be rendered to screen ?
> Using cairo might simplify the code, also it would enable interesting possibilities:  cairo supports output to svg, pdf, various image files, printers and 2d architectures opengl is supported.
>
> Does anybody have any idea how difficult it would be to do ?
>
> BTW, is there a bug tracker where I can enter this feature request ?


I don't understand what the point would be.  The idea of GL2PS is to
get output from your OpenGL programs in some vector format.  So
presumably you already have things displaying on a screen to begin
with.  Why go the long way around from screen to cairo just to get
back to the screen?  If you want to display the output, you can always
load it up in any program that can read the formats gl2ps reads.

--bb