Inkscape

  1. Bug #179988
  2. Comment #106

Comment 106 for bug 179988

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Adrian Johnson (ajohnson-redneon) wrote : Re: [Bug 179988] Re: no printing from Windows

Ulferikson wrote:
> This is an assertion. I don't think it has anything with the win-print
> test code to do. Somehow Inkscape asks cairo to use an operation that is
> not supported on the win32 printing surface. Hopefully Inkscape does not
> need to know what operations are supported on each back-end, cairo will
> simply do the best possible behind the scene (such as using
> rasterization if needed).

All operations are supported by all backends in cairo. If a backend can
not natively handle an operation it will output a rasterized image. The
only time an application needs to care about what operations are
natively supported is when it wants to get all vector output.