[cairo] Wanted features in Cairo.

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:34 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:46:05 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 17:55 +0200, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> > > At that point we can just convert the stroke to a fill operation, and
> > > output the path for those backends, right?
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > So, we really need to implement cairo_stroke_to_path().  Any takers?
> 
> Actually, this one's simple.
> 
> If you're just doing stroke_to_path for internal purposes where you
> know you're planning to fill it, then the trivial thing with the
> current code will be just fine.
> 
> It's only if you want to export the stroke_to_path result to a user
> that might then _stroke_ it that the current result is problematic and
> needs some extra code to eliminate the "backward edge loops".

We need stroke_to_path() for user-font API too.  So, the complicated
version is needed there.


> -Carl
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