[Bf-committers] GPencil I/O Project: Request to integrate libharu lib to export PDF format

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi,

My suggestion would be the following:

* Stick to libharu since it was proven that works for the intended use case.
* Make sure libharu integration in the code goes via a layer of abstraction.

So instead of trying now to solve an non-existent problem, we use 
development time to make sure the existing solution is robust enough to 
be replaced if needs be.

Regards,
Dalai

On 09-12-2020 23:34, Campbell Barton via Bf-committers wrote:
> rsvg-convert (which uses cairo), is a utility that converts SVG to
> PDF, it can create multi-page PDF's from many SVG's too.
>
> If for some reason we need more control then a command line utility
> provides, there are Python multiple options regarding bindings for
> cairo & svg conversion.
>  From what I can tell they can convert SVG to PDF quite easily.
>
> Regarding bundling the conversion tools, if this it's only a few
> studios with specific requirements, we don't _necessarily_ need to
> include the conversion utilities with Blender, although this is a
> decision we could easily change.
>
> I'm not pushing for this as the final solution, just checking if it
> might be a simpler option compared to taking on a PDF library that
> isn't maintained anymore.
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