[cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

[John Ehresman]

Owen Taylor wrote:
 > ...
> If I had to take a guess at the right direction, it's to go on top of
> GDI+ for now (with heavy image fallbacks), and look at writing a
> Direct3D backend later.

How much of an advantage is GDI+ over GDI?  I agree that the need for 
printing favors GDI+/GDI over the other two.  My interest in cairo is 
mainly driven by the future use of it by gtk and its printing support. 
I don't anticipate that I'll be using many of the advanced graphics 
capabilities.

John