[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] 2 commits - src/news

Carl Worth cworth at freedesktop.org
Tue Oct 30 22:48:57 PDT 2007


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commit 4336b5f62adface0145e31c4d0607a543d987065
Merge: 55add5e... 2debe93...
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 30 22:52:58 2007 -0700

    Merge branch 'master' of annarchy.freedesktop.org:/srv/cairo.freedesktop.org/wiki

commit 55add5eb9d0d646e1817494e2322339c24ec932c
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 30 22:52:48 2007 -0700

    Add cairo-1.5.2 announcement

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+[[meta title="cairo 1.5.2 snapshot available"]]
+[[meta date="2007-10-30"]]
+
+	From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
+	Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:47:52 -0700
+	To: cairo-announce at cairographics.org
+	Cc: gnome-announce-list at gnome.org
+	Subject: cairo snapshot 1.5.2 now available
+	
+	A new cairo snapshot 1.5.2 is now available from:
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.5.2.tar.gz
+	
+	    which can be verified with:
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.5.2.tar.gz.sha1
+	        39d6593433ce4896a065a6c4ad2882a5cc1fe05a  cairo-1.5.2.tar.gz
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.5.2.tar.gz.sha1.asc
+	        (signed by Carl Worth)
+	
+	  Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
+	
+	        git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
+	
+	    will include a signed 1.5.2 tag which points to a commit named:
+	        ee5dc04aaf81d6ce9c496c7966ceebfbd6ab12fb
+	
+	    which can be verified with:
+	        git verify-tag 1.5.2
+	
+	    and can be checked out with a command such as:
+	        git checkout -b build 1.5.2
+	
+	This is the first snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes 4
+	months after the 1.4.10 release. This snapshot includes significant
+	improvements to PDF and PostScript output, which is one of the things
+	in which we're most interested in getting feedback. There are a couple
+	of minor API additions, and several optimizations, (primarily in the
+	"print/vector" backends). And there are dozens of bug fixes and
+	robustness improvements.
+	
+	NOTE: This is a snapshot of in-progress development, not a "release".
+	So it is expected that there will be more rough edges than one would
+	find in a major release. For example, various tests in the test suite
+	are currently failing against the PDF backend, and we'll get those
+	fixed before the 1.6 release. But you're likely to notice more
+	improvements than problems, so give this snapshot a try and let us
+	know how it goes for you. Read more below for many details on the
+	exciting things in cairo 1.5.2 compared to cairo 1.4.10.
+	
+	Have fun with cairo!
+	
+	-Carl
+	
+	Snapshot 1.5.2 (2007-10-30 Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>)
+	==========================================================
+	This is the first snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes 4
+	months after the 1.4.10 release. This snapshot includes significant
+	improvements to PDF and PostScript output, which is one of the things
+	in which we're most interested in getting feedback. There are a couple
+	of minor API additions, and several optimizations, (primarily in the
+	"print/vector" backends). And there are dozens of bug fixes and
+	robustness improvements.
+	
+	New dependency on external pixman library
+	-----------------------------------------
+	A significant change in this snapshot compared to all previous cairo
+	releases is that cairo now depends on an external "pixman" library for
+	its software rendering. Previously this same code was compiled
+	internally as part of cairo, but now the code is separate so that both
+	cairo and the X server can now share common code, (thanks very much to
+	Søren Sandmann for his work on separating pixman and maintaining it).
+	
+	So users will need to acquire and build pixman before being able to
+	build cairo. The current release is 0.9.6 and can be obtained from
+	here:
+	
+		http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz
+	
+	 which can be verified with:
+	
+		http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz.sha1
+		66f01a682c64403a3d7a855ba5aa609ed93bcb9e  pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz
+	
+		http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz.sha1.asc
+		(signed by Carl Worth)
+	
+	Major PDF/PostScript improvements
+	---------------------------------
+	Adrian Johnson has done some long-awaited work to make cairo's PDF and
+	PostScript output more interesting than ever before. First, many
+	operations that previously triggered image fallbacks will now be
+	rendered as native vectors. These operations include:
+	
+		PDF: cairo_push_group, cairo_surface_create_similar,
+		cairo_mask, A8/A1 surface sources, repeating/reflecting linear
+		gradients.
+	
+		PostScript: cairo_push_group, cairo_surface_create_similar,
+		gradients, bilevel alpha masks, (for example, all values either 0 or
+		255 for an A8 mask).
+	
+	Not only that, but when an image fallback is required, it will now be
+	limited to only the necessary region. For example, a tiny translucent
+	image overlaying a small portion of text would previously caused an
+	entire PostScript page to be rendered as a giant image. Now, the
+	majority of that page will be nice text, and there will only be a tiny
+	image in the output.
+	
+	Additionally, the PostScript output now carefully encodes text so that
+	if it is subsequently converted to PDF, the text will be
+	selectable.
+	
+	This is very exciting progress, and we're hoping to hear from users
+	during the 1.5 series about how things have improved, (for example,
+	inkscape users doing cairo-based PDF export: please let us know how
+	things look). And feel free to pass your thanks along to Adrian for his excellent work.
+	
+	NOTE: This much improved PDF output makes more sophisticated use of
+	functionality in the PDF specification. This means that cairo's output
+	will sometimes expose bugs in some free software PDF viewers, (evince,
+	poppler, and xpdf, for example), that are not yet ready for such PDF
+	files. We're working with the poppler maintainers to get these bugs
+	fixed as quickly as possible. In the meantime, please double-check
+	with other PDF viewers if cairo-generated PDF files are not being
+	rendered correctly. It may be due to a bug in the viewer rather than
+	in the PDF file that cairo has created.
+	
+	Robustness improvements
+	-----------------------
+	Chris Wilson has made the largest contribution by far to cairo 1.5.2,
+	(in number of commits). His more than 150 commits include a huge
+	number of fixes to increase cairo's robustness. These fixes make cairo
+	more robust against invalid and degenerate input, (NaN, empty path,
+	etc.), against size-0 malloc calls, against memory leaks on
+	error-recovery paths, and against other failures during error
+	handling. He also implemented atomic operations to cairo, and used
+	them to fix cairo's previously non-thread-safe reference counting,
+	again improving robustness.
+	
+	Chris has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into writing
+	analysis tools for this work, and in running those tools and fixing
+	the problems they report. We're very grateful for this work, and hope
+	that all cairo users appreciate the more robust implementation that
+	results from it.
+	
+	This work is largely thankless, so it might make sense to notice
+	sometime that cairo has been running quite smoothly for you, and when
+	you do, send a quick "thank you" off to Chris Wilson, since it
+	is all definitely running smoother thanks to his work.
+	
+	New API
+	-------
+	There are no major additions to cairo's core API. The only new,
+	generic functions are:
+	
+		void
+		cairo_surface_copy_page (cairo_surface_t *surface);
+	
+		void
+		cairo_surface_show_page (cairo_surface_t *surface);
+	
+	which can now be used much more conveniently than the existing
+	cairo_copy_page and cairo_show_page functions in some
+	situations. These functions act identically, but require only a
+	cairo_surface_t* and not a cairo_t*.
+	
+	All other API additions are specific to particular backends.
+	
+	New cairo-win32 API (new font face function and "win32 printing" surface)
+	-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+	There is a new function for creating a win32 font face for both a
+	logfontw and an hfont together. This complements the existing
+	functions for creating a font face from one or the other:
+	
+		cairo_font_face_t *
+		cairo_win32_font_face_create_for_logfontw_hfont (LOGFONTW *logfont,
+								 HFONT font);
+	
+	There is also a new "win32 printing" surface:
+	
+		cairo_surface_t *
+		cairo_win32_printing_surface_create (HDC hdc);
+	
+	This interface looks identical to the original
+	cairo_win32_surface_create, (both accept and HDC), but the behavior of
+	this new surface is very different. It should only be called with a
+	printing DC, and will result in all drawing commands being stored into
+	a meta-surface and emitted after each page is complete, with analysis
+	to do as minimal image-based fallbacks as necessary. The behavior and
+	implementation shares much with the PDF and PostScript backends.
+	
+	New cairo-ps API (EPS and PostScript level control)
+	---------------------------------------------------
+	An often requested feature has been the ability to generate
+	Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) with cairo. We have that now with the
+	following very simple API. Just do cairo_ps_surface_create as usual
+	then call this function with a true value:
+	
+		void
+		cairo_ps_surface_set_eps (cairo_surface_t       *surface,
+					  cairo_bool_t           eps);
+	
+	[NOTE: As always with snapshots, it's possible---though not very
+	likely---that the API could still be modified before a final
+	release. For example, this is the first public cairo function that
+	accepts a Boolean parameter. I'm generally opposed to Boolean
+	parameters, but this is probably the one case where I'm willing to
+	accept one, (namely a "set" function that accepts a single Boolean).]
+	
+	Also, it is now possible to control what PostScript level to target,
+	(either level 2 or level 3), with the following new API:
+	
+		typedef enum _cairo_ps_level {
+		    CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_2,
+		    CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_3
+		} cairo_ps_level_t;
+	
+		void
+		cairo_ps_surface_restrict_to_level (cairo_surface_t    *surface,
+						    cairo_ps_level_t    level);
+	
+		void
+		cairo_ps_get_levels (cairo_ps_level_t const  **levels,
+				     int                      *num_levels);
+	
+		const char *
+		cairo_ps_level_to_string (cairo_ps_level_t level);
+	
+	Improvement for cairo-quartz
+	----------------------------
+	Brian Ewins had contributed several improvements to cairo-quartz. These
+	include an implementation of EXTEND_NONE for linear and radial
+	gradients, (so this extend mode will no longer trigger image fallbacks
+	for these gradients), as well as native surface-mask clipping, (only
+	on OS X 10.4+ where the CGContextClipToMask function is available).
+	
+	He also fixed a semantic mismatch between cairo and quartz for dashing
+	with an odd number of entries in the dash array.
+	
+	We're grateful for Brian since not many quartz-specific improvements
+	to cairo would be happening without him.
+	
+	Optimizations
+	-------------
+	Optimize SVG output for when the same path is both filled and stroked,
+	and avoid unnecessary identity matrix in SVG output. (Emmanuel Pacaud).
+	
+	Optimize PS output to take less space (Ken Herron).
+	
+	Make PS output more compliant with DSC recommendations (avoid initclip
+	and copy_page) (Adrian Johnson).
+	
+	Make PDF output more compact (Adrian Johnson).
+	
+	Release glyph surfaces after uploading them to the X server, (should
+	save some memory for many xlib-using cairo application). (Behdad
+	Esfahbod).
+	
+	Optimize cairo-win32 to use fewer GDI objects (Vladimir Vukicevic).
+	
+	win32-printing: Avoid falling back to images when alpha == 255
+	everywhere. (Adrian Johnson).
+	
+	win32-printing: Avoid falling back for cairo_push_group and
+	cairo_surface_create_similar. (Adrian Johnson)
+	
+	Bug fixes
+	---------
+	Avoid potential integer overflows when allocating large buffers
+	(Vladimir Vukicevic).
+	
+	Preparations to allow the 16.16 fixed-point format to change to
+	24.8 (Vladimir Vukicevic).
+	
+	Fix bugs for unsupported X server visuals (rgb565, rgb555, bgr888, and
+	abgr8888). (Carl Worth and Vladimir Vukicevic)
+	
+	Fix bugs in PDF gradients (Adrian Johnson).
+	
+	Fix cairo-xlib to build without requiring Xrender header
+	files (Behdad Esfahbod).
+	
+	Make cairo more resilient in the case of glyphs not being available in
+	the current font. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+	
+	Prevent crashes when both atsui and ft font backends are compiled in
+	(Brian Ewins).
+	
+	Make font subsetting code more robust against fonts that don't include
+	optional tables (Adrian Johnson).
+	
+	Fix CFF subsetting bug, (which manifested by generating PDF files that
+	Apple's Preview viewer could not read) (Adrian Johnson).
+	
+	Fixed error handling for quartz and ATSUI backends (Brian Ewins).
+	
+	Avoid rounding problems by pre-transforming to avoid integer-only
+	restrictions on transformation in GDI (Adrian Johnson).
+	
+	Fixed an obscure bug (#7245) computing extents for some stroked
+	paths (Carl Worth).
+	
+	Fix crashes due to extreme transformation of the pen, (seems to show
+	up in many .swf files for some reason) (Carl Worth).
+	
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