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title: "Using Skia's PDF Backend"
linkTitle: "Using Skia's PDF Backend"
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Here is an example of using Skia's PDF backend (SkPDF) via the SkDocument and
SkCanvas APIs.
<fiddle-embed-sk name='@PDF'></fiddle-embed-sk>
<!-- https://fiddle.skia.org/c/@PDF docs/examples/PDF.cpp -->
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## SkPDF Limitations
There are several corners of Skia's public API that SkPDF currently does not
handle because either no known client uses the feature or there is no simple
PDF-ish way to handle it.
In this document:
- **drop** means to draw nothing.
- **ignore** means to draw without the effect
- **expand** means to implement something in a non-PDF-ish way. This may mean to
rasterize vector graphics, to expand paths with path effects into many
individual paths, or to convert text to paths.
<style scoped><!--
#pdftable {border-collapse:collapse;}
#pdftable tr th, #pdftable tr td {border:#888888 2px solid;padding: 5px;}
--></style>
<table id="pdftable">
<tr><th>Effect</th> <th>text</th> <th>images</th> <th>everything
else</th></tr>
<tr><th>SkMaskFilter</th> <td>drop</td> <td>ignore</td> <td>ignore</td></tr>
<tr><th>SkPathEffect</th> <td>ignore</td> <td>n/a</td> <td>expand</td></tr>
<tr><th>SkColorFilter</th> <td>ignore</td> <td>expand</td> <td>ignore</td></tr>
<tr><th>SkImageFilter</th> <td>expand</td> <td>expand</td> <td>expand</td></tr>
<tr><th>unsupported SkXferModes</th> <td>ignore</td> <td>ignore</td> <td>ignore</td></tr>
<tr><th>non-gradient SkShader</th> <td>expand</td> <td>n/a</td> <td>expand</td></tr>
</table>
Notes:
- _SkImageFilter_: When SkImageFilter is expanded, text-as-text is lost.
- _SkXferMode_: The following transfer modes are not natively supported by PDF:
DstOver, SrcIn, DstIn, SrcOut, DstOut, SrcATop, DstATop, and Modulate.
Other limitations:
- _drawText with VerticalText_ — drop. No known clients seem to make use of the
VerticalText flag.
- _drawTextOnPath_ — expand. (Text-as-text is lost.)
- _drawVertices_ — drop.
- _drawPatch_ — drop.
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