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		gaius on July 17, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Apple didn't use X for the window system You could always take an X screenshot and dump it to the printer :-P Cairo is more analogous to say Qt or wx than it is DPS/DPDF.

ajross on July 17, 2008 [–]

Your implication seems to be that Cairo doesn't work on an accelerated backend? That's not correct. It is correct that the primitive assembly happens client side in Cairo, which I'm not sure is a misfeature. The IPC overhead of DPS was always one of its biggest problems.

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