<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 10, 2012, at 11:29 AM, <a href="mailto:robertk54@aol.com">robertk54@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_5144fbab-3fe9-490d-b86b-f7bddacaf0f6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">> Is it possible to render rectangles whose vertical lines are different in
width from the horizontal lines?
>cairo_rectangle(cr, x, y, width, height);
>cairo_save(cr);
>cairo_scale(cr, stroke_width, stroke_height);
>cairo_set_line_width(cr, 1);
>cairo_stroke(cr);
>cairo_restore(cr);
</font></tt></pre></div></div></font></blockquote><div><br></div>This is a cool solution. Clever but simple.<br><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "><div id="AOLMsgPart_0_5144fbab-3fe9-490d-b86b-f7bddacaf0f6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks Chris!</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Given this solution, what are the resulting dimensions of the rectangles? Both the rectangle outside the line and the one within the line? I need to fill the inner rectangle with a color . I also need to use the inner rectangle for clipping other content which will be rendered on top of it.
<br></font></tt></pre></div></div></font></blockquote></div><div>If you're doing the above though…</div><div><br></div><div>Why not just do</div><div><br></div><div>cairo_rectangle(cr, ...outer_border_dimensions…);</div><div>cairo_set_source(cr, …border color…);</div><div>cairo_fill(cr);</div><div>cairo_rectangle(cr, …inner_border_dimensions…);</div><div>cairo_set_source(cr, …fill color…);</div><div>cairo_fill_preserve(cr);</div><div>cairo_clip(cr);</div><div><br></div><div>?</div><div><br></div><div>
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