PhilterPaper commented on Sep 24
Since directly outputting various image formats (pixel or vector) would seem to be a huge undertaking, and utilities already exist to convert PDF to image, I'm not sure this is worth the effort. If someone can suggest methods that are a simple plug-in library or something similar (rather than writing it from scratch), I would be willing to take another look at it. There might be three approaches:
- convert PDF data structures to graphics during page output
- invoke an external utility (under the covers) to convert a just-written PDF file to image
- directly write calls as graphics data rather than PDF primitives, but this threatens to be a huge task
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PhilterPaper added the wontfix label on Oct 1