<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 16, 2007 6:29 PM, Dirk Schönberger <<a href="mailto:dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de">dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">> Sounds like a case for your app deciding when it should be drawn and then<br>only<br>> creating and stroking the path at that stage.<br><br></div>Not quite. The path should eist (e.g in a generated SVG document), it only <br>should not be rendered.<br>Think e.g of a SVG document which should be embedded in a wordprocessor<br>document (given the fact that such a tool actually exist).<br>The invisible path could be used to define the outline of the document. But <br>because you don't know anything about the background of the document, you<br>don't want to render the path, just use it for flow calculations.<br></blockquote><div><br>Exactly!<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br>The most obvious way to do this would be to set a source surface to "NULL",<br>or to a special Null-Surface. The former variant may lead to unexpected<br>behaviour, because NULL may be treated as an invalid value. </blockquote><div><br>Um, what is Null-Surface? How? Can't find it in API reference.<br>I'm running pycairo 1.2.6, if that make things a bit cleaner..<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br><br>Regards<br>Dirk<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cairo mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank"> http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a><br></blockquote></div><br>