[cairo] Notes on cairo/win32

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 14:20 +0000, J. Ali Harlow wrote:
> On 12/01/05 14:07:59, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I think a GDI[+] backend will be useful in any case for printing and
> > for older Windows on older computers, so time spent working on one
> > won't be a loss even if OpenGL or Direct3D is how we get things
> > hardware accelerated.
> 
> Excuse my complete ignorance of cairo, but how do you see printing  
> working long term? Can cairo use a GDI+ backend for printing and a  
> Direct3D backend for screen display for the same application or do we  
> need to provide one combined backend? 

There is no problem with using multiple backends... we have that
on Unix currently, with image, RENDER, OpenGL/Glitz, PDF. What we
do need is a single font system shared by all backends, but that
shouldn't be a problem here.

> If the former then starting with  
> a GDI+ backend certainly seems like the way forward to me since we'll  
> need it anyway.

That's my thought.

Regards,
						Owen

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