Comment 6 for bug 168800

I'm not exactly experienced in Cairo, but I'm pretty sure that it supports clipping. And it works as expected. This can be seen in brilliant python library for drawing graphs "matplotlib", which uses Cairo for rendering. Thus, it can export to SVG, EPS, PDF etc. However, I'm attaching PNG, SVG and PDF documents (graphs) made with matplotlib, where the clipping is used, and the result is really good. Maybe this can help finding "problematic" code which causes problems with clipping in Inkscape PDF export.

BTW, could it be, that this is not working yet, because not the whole rendering is converted to Cairo? And further on, I guess this means that maybe we can expect this to work, when the transition to Cairo is done.