Why PDFium chose the Anti-Grain Geometry Render Engine
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Kuka
Jul 24, 2025, 3:22:55 AMJul 24
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What are his strengths?
geisserml
Jul 24, 2025, 3:30:19 PMJul 24
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I believe PDFium is actually moving away from AGG towards Skia.
Using AGG might have been a decision from the Foxit days of this codebase, I wouldn't know.
From a user perspective, I can say AGG does its job at a very small binary size, whereas Skia would increase the size of built packages.
However, an advantage with Skia is, you can get an SkCanvas object rather than just a raster.
I imagine SkCanvas could be used e.g. for PDF to SVG conversion, which an AGG build of pdfium can't do. Haven't actually tested this yet though.
However, an advantage with Skia is, you can get an SkCanvas object rather than just a raster.
I imagine SkCanvas could be used e.g. for PDF to SVG conversion, which an AGG build of pdfium can't do. Haven't actually tested this yet though.
On Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 9:22:55 AM UTC+2 tyck...@gmail.com wrote:
What are his strengths?
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