[cairo] API request: obtain the trapezoids that are outside of the surface

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:36:34 +0200, Jost Boekemeier wrote:
> BTW: I assumed that RENDER keeps the trapezoids that cairo sends to it,
> so that it can scale the picture upon request:
> 
> cairo_save(cr);
>  cairo_set_target_surface(cr, parent);
>  cairo_scale(cr, 10, 10);
>  cairo_surface_show(cr, surface);
> cairo_restore(cr);
> 
> It seems that RENDER only keeps the image of surface, but not the
> trapezoids.  Is that a bug?

No, that's just the way RENDER is designed. And it's the same thing
for the contents of a cairo surface. If you want things to scale up
nicely, you'll want to call cairo_scale before you do whatever drawing
operations give you the contents of that surface.

-Carl