After much prep work (kudos to you, Armin!), things start to look like it’s working:
(if you inspect this carefully, you’ll see the difference between the preview image on the left side, which is still rendered the old way, and Draw’s edit pane content to the right, which now gets displayed via cairocanvas).
Gory details, live demo, and plans how to move on at this year’s OOoCon. If you can’t wait: OOoWiki has a brief hacker’s guide.
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