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writing a fully custom PDF (and EPS, SVG, PNG, ...) rendering engine You mean like this? http://cairographics.org/ http://cairographics.org/ (Which, BTW, has
by colanderman 14y ago
writing a fully custom PDF (and EPS, SVG, PNG, ...) rendering engine
You mean like this? http://cairographics.org/ http://cairographics.org/ (Which, BTW, has Python bindings…)
because the CPU time is cheap and programmer time is expensive (and better used elsewhere)
Yes, but programmer time to implement rendering using a fast library such as Cairo is O(1), while the CPU time is O(n) where n is the amount of business you do.
(Disclaimer: I have written a schematic renderer before using Cairo. It took me maybe a couple days.)