From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:58:22 +0100 From: rog@vitanuova.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: RE: [9fans] gcc on plan9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6112bb06-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > as noted before, page already handles ps/pdf. this is true. however i wouldn't mind seeing some way of doing nice looking drawing under plan 9 (not that i'm implying that display pdf is suitably lightweight!). the draw ops implemented by /dev/draw are not really good for anything except crude looking diagrams - jaggies galore, and not enough positioning accuracy. by way of illustration, observe how the implementation of line() needs to use sub-pixel accuracy in order to get reasonable looking arrows. i reckon you could strip out ellipse, line and polygon from devdraw and almost nothing would notice. but replacing them is quite a bit of work...