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John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> writes:
> As you may know, we have a prototype of a PDF backend, though it is
> missing many features.
I've been offline for a while (and will be for at least a week more),
but I hacked a bit more on the PDF backend and just did a commit. Now
it tries to support images and mathtext, but both are incomplete. 
Here's what I think is currently missing:
 * the alpha channel of images is not used (I think this is easy to do)
 * image compression could be improved (PDF supports png-like compression)
 * there are encoding problems in text, especially in mathtext 
 (e.g. \alpha doesn't show up)
 * mathtext positioning seems a bit off
 * no unicode support in text (or mathtext)
 * no Type 1 or Base-14 font support (i.e., "pdf.use_afm")
 * TTF support has lots of small TODOs, e.g. how do you know if a font 
 is serif/sans-serif, or symbolic/non-symbolic?
 * draw_markers, draw_line_collection, etc.
 * use_tex
Perhaps now would be a good time for anyone interested to give the PDF
backend a spin around the block and tell me about any other bugs or
missing features, so when I next do a bout of backend_pdf hacking,
I'll know what people's priorities are.
-- 
Jouni